Inventions
Wearable Tomato Project
This has gotten quite a bit of attention from the Internet. But just in case some of you haven't seen it, this is the "Tomatan" — the end result of the "wearable tomato project" sponsored by a Japanese vegetable juice company to promote the idea that tomatoes are good for you and would be great food-on-the-go for runners.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 26, 2015 -
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Category: Food, Inventions, Chindogu
Your face on a pancake
Technology marches onward! Product development company Kinneir Dufort has created a machine that can print faces onto pancakes. It explains:
Posted By: Alex - Mon Feb 23, 2015 -
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Category: Food, Inventions, Photography and Photographers, Technology
Octa-Gane Water Injection Carburetor
Even after reading this article, I'm still not sure about the physics of this device. But one thing is clear.
"Popular Science tested one of the J.C. Whitney Octa-Ganes in 1968 and reported a drop in fuel mileage and power when using it."
Original ad here. (Scroll down.)
Posted By: Paul - Wed Dec 31, 2014 -
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Category: Frauds, Cons and Scams, Inventions, 1950s, Cars
Natural Body Brace
Unnatural is more like it!
Original ad here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 07, 2014 -
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Category: Body, Injuries, Inventions, 1920s
Shrimp Cannon
Nearly four million views, but perhaps new to you!
Posted By: Paul - Sun Nov 30, 2014 -
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Category: Animals, Business, Advertising, Food, Inventions, Asia
Inflatable Umbrella Hat, 1951
As soon as it starts raining, wouldn't the lack of spokes on this thing cause it to wrap around the wearer's head like a wet plastic bag, smothering them?
Newsweek - Aug 27, 1951
Posted By: Alex - Tue Nov 04, 2014 -
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Category: Inventions, Headgear, 1950s
Buttleopener forces resignation
Mark Gregory invented the Buttleopener, which is a bottle opener shaped like a woman's buttocks. Gregory also served as a member of the Williamson County school board in Tennessee, recently rising to become chairman. But the two aspects of his life (buttleopener inventor and school board chairman) have proven to be incompatible. Gregory recently resigned his position as chairman, bowing to pressure from parents who really, really didn't want him involved with the school board. [rawstory.com]
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 05, 2014 -
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Category: Education, Inventions, School
Ballpoint pen cutlery
These "Din-ink" ballpoint pen caps from ZO_loft allow you to transform your pens into cutlery. Why you would want to do this, I'm not sure. But you can!
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 23, 2014 -
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Category: Food, Inventions
Facial Fitness Pao
Another strange invention from Japan. This one is designed to exercise your facial muscles. Just hold it in your mouth and swing the bars up and down.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Aug 23, 2014 -
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Category: Exercise and Fitness, Inventions
Home heating with beer cans
Back in the late 1970s, Bill Tolle of Woodlawn, Ohio figured out a way to use empty beer cans to heat his home in the winter. Basically he made a solar heater, with the empty cans trapping the sun's heat. But the beer can angle perked the media's interest.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 22, 2014 -
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Category: Engineering and Construction, Inventions, 1970s
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