Posts from ‘January, 2009’

The Dad’s Cab is a neat gadget that breeds an interesting business idea. How about charging children for the services we provide as parents, including carting them around to their many activities and engagements? All I can say is I think and hope this is just a fun gag gift and nothing more, but I can’t help but fear that some might take it all too seriously.

Bringing alcoholic beverages into sporting events is near impossible. Event security is up on all the tricks; binoculars that are really flasks, vodka in a bottle of water, a bottle of rum hidden in your kid's underoos.

US Patent #6,415,807 is a Decoy Hunting/Observing Blind . What is a blind anyway, you may ask ever so intelligently

For those among us who enjoy conversing with plants and other green things (aliens and men little and large) Patent # US 7113911 , the Voice Communication Concerning a Local Entity might be just the thing. Issued in September of 2006, it promises for the future of telephone lines everywhere a dialogue such as this: “I am a plant.

You want to be caffeinated this immediate second because, after all, you are awake and that means you have to sort of do things NOW. Patent # US 7078016 , also known as Delivery of Caffeine Through an Inhalation Route, guarantees a quick caffeine fix. This 2002 invention concerns aerosols containing caffeine that are used in inhalation therapy.

Please don’t throw your cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light

There is probably no entertainer anywhere in the world who has earned more money (or at least as much money) dead than he did when he was alive.

Necessity is the mother of invention, but the father is unknown ~Anonymous     Patent#US6983493 , the Retractable Toilet Table Top , concerns the concept of toilet inspiration, you know, those great ideas that seem to come out of nowhere when it’s “john time.” The royal throne, as the inventor refers to that instrument of necessity we plebes know as a toilet, has been transformed into a respectable workplace. According to the inventor, his Retractable Toilet Table Top conquers the conventional shortcomings of standard toilet facilities. His creation, however, needs the following elements in order to succeed: “This is a device for providing a working surface while a user is seated on a toilet

Necessity is the mother of invention, but the father is unknown ~Anonymous     Patent#US6983493 , the Retractable Toilet Table Top , concerns the concept of toilet inspiration, you know, those great ideas that seem to come out of nowhere when it’s “john time.” The royal throne, as the inventor refers to that instrument of necessity we plebes know as a toilet, has been transformed into a respectable workplace. According to the inventor, his Retractable Toilet Table Top conquers the conventional shortcomings of standard toilet facilities. His creation, however, needs the following elements in order to succeed: “This is a device for providing a working surface while a user is seated on a toilet

Patent# 3,841,328 the Hijack Injector, assumes that all hijackers are sedentary or at least can be encouraged to be so. Given that it might be possible for that situation to occur (perhaps it could be assured if they are tired and hijacked a few too many planes that day). This patent provides just punishment and a way to take action and control over what could be a fatal situation via a hypodermic needle injector built into every seat on the plane!   This passenger-disabling apparatus mounted in and under every airplane seat and remotely actuated by a pilot or a crewmember is comprised of a solenoid actuated seat belt buckle lock in combination with an inflatable seat back and hypodermic injection apparatus.