Inventions
Monitor grandma’s health via her butt
A new gadget, the VISSEIRO Smart Chair Pad, promises to allow people to remotely monitor the health of loved ones via a seat cushion. When someone (a grandmother, for example) sits on the cushion, it's able to record various vital signs through her buttocks. It can then send this info to an app on the phone of the granddaughter, offering reassurance that grandma is still alive and doing well.My question is: if the vital signs flatline, how do you know if grandma is dead, or has simply stood up?
More info: visseiro.com
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 20, 2019 -
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Category: Health, Inventions
Bacon Vending Machine
In 2018, Ohio State University became home to the world’s first bacon vending machine. It was a promotional stunt dreamed up by the Ohio Pork Council.Although the machine got lots of publicity, I'm having a hard time figuring out what exactly came out of the machine. As far as I can tell, it wasn't a piece of sizzling, freshly-cooked bacon. Instead, it was a slice of pre-cooked, cold bacon. Still, it was bacon.
The stunt was only a limited-time affair, but the machine proved so popular that one is now being installed at Buckeyes' Stadium.
More info: Saturday down South, OSU Agricultural College, OSU Dept. of Animal Sciences
Posted By: Alex - Fri Sep 06, 2019 -
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Category: Inventions, Bacon
Dog Dryer
Available at thedogdryer.com.There needs to be a human version of this.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 29, 2019 -
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Category: Inventions, Pets, Dogs
The GE Blue Max Radio
Posted By: Paul - Thu Aug 01, 2019 -
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Category: Design and Designers, Inventions, Technology, 1960s
Shoo: The Deterrer of Pooping Dogs
Thirteen-year-old Noah De La Paz of California has invented a device to stop dogs from pooping on the lawn of his family’s house. It uses a camera and image-detection software. When a dog is identified, his device emits a high-pitched sound to encourage the dog to move on. Although still in the prototype stage, Noah hopes to eventually bring his invention to market.I can see some potential problems with his invention. Such as that it doesn't seem to differentiate between pooping and non-pooping dogs. But even so, it sure would beat the currently most popular method of preventing unwanted poopers, which is to put up angry, threatening signs on your lawn.
More info: Spectrum News
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jul 11, 2019 -
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Category: Inventions, Excrement, Dogs
Mystery Gadget 78
What's it for?
The answer is here.
Or after the jump.
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Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 01, 2019 -
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Category: Inventions, Chindogu
Superthunderstingcar
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 29, 2019 -
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Category: Evil, Humor, Parody, Inventions, Puppets and Automatons, Television, Science Fiction, 1960s
The Hollister Wind Bag
Patented by Thomas Lloyd Hollister in 1939. He called it a “gas receptor.” Basically, it was a fart collection bag. From the patent:
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 30, 2019 -
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Category: Inventions, Patents, Flatulence, 1930s
The Ratapult
Invented circa 1992 by Allen Gross. It was intended to be a more humane rattrap. Instead of killing the rats, it flung them up to 50 feet into a cage or bucket. The dazed, but still living, rodents could then be either turned over to authorities or released into the wild. Noted Gross, “I didn’t want the (rodents) squashed or turned into meatloaf.”
Santa Rosa Press Democrat - Feb 14, 1992
Staunton News Leader - Feb 14, 1992
Turns out this wasn't the first rat-flinging trap to be invented. Back in 1912, a similar device debuted, also called the Ratapult. Though it wasn't intended to be in any way humane:
Vergennes Orwell Citizen - Jan 9, 1913
Posted By: Alex - Sat Mar 23, 2019 -
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Category: Inventions, Pests, Plagues and Infestations, 1990s
Prayer-Power Batteries
As explained by what-when-how.com:More info: Aetherius.org, wikipedia
A Prayer Battery being charged. via Aetherius.org.nz
Posted By: Alex - Sun Mar 03, 2019 -
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Category: Inventions, Religion, Technology
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