Posts from ‘November, 2007’

Great Invention Idea? Toilet Headrest Steadies You in Your Hour of Need

Forehead Support Apparatus In anticipation of my traditional tendency to overindulge at the holidays I picked up a copy of Gary Taubes’s, “Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease,” in the hopes that I’d been right all along and that alcohol and chocolate are in fact the primary ingredients in the elixir of life. Unfortunately, that’s not quite the way Taubes sees it.

Great Invention Idea? Treatment for Male Impotence Found in Your Pantry

I admit it, there’s nothing new, interesting or unusual about lavender, pumpkin pie, doughnuts and licorice. So why are these four unremarkable items the focus of my article today? It is because Alan R. Hirsch of Chicago, Illinois , has figured out how to combine these ingredients in an innovative way – a [...]

Thanksgiving Patents-Part 5: Smelly Gas No More!

The Perfect Thanksgiving Dinner: Step 5
The following is the final installation in a multi-part series exploring innovative and unusual patents that could help make your Thanksgiving celebration the best ever!