Posts from ‘June, 2009’

The Flying Ski also known as Patent# US 6786785 has its conventional aspects even though its concept is way off base.

When the words “stunt” and “granny” combine, I sort’a cringe.  I think of things like this: I feel like my spleen is melting. I’d like to think that it has something to do with some innate feeling that “granny” is going to fly off of the bike and put herself in a body cast. I’d like to think that I’m not so jaded as to actually have a furrowed brow as she tools around on the motorcycle

Has transportation reached new lows?

The Process for the Utilization of Ruminant Animal Methane Emissions sometimes referred to as Patent# US 6982161, involves a device patented in 2006 that traps the belches of cows. Why, you may ask, would anyone in their right mind (or even in their wrong one) want to do that

Patent# US 6788200, also known as Footwear with GPS, is the perfect invention for those among us who are not sure of where we are going. It involves a locator unit contained within footwear providing a method for GPS position determination and transmission of location data to a central monitoring station, which then disseminates the data through software and the Internet

Issued back in 2004, Patent # US 6787159 relates to a Process for the Preparation of a Cosmetically Usable Extract From Marine Ooze and a product including an extract from marine ooze, and its use. It would appear to be sort of based upon the premise that one cannot become truly beautiful without first becoming truly ugly (and having the wisdom to know the difference between the two).

Go to bed in your fireplace.

Whether or not Marie Antoinette ever instructed the French people to eat cake has been questioned down through history since the day the poor royal lost her head, but let’s face it. Cake is cake and what would a special occasion such as a wedding be without it?

Thomas Jefferson invented a macaroni-making machine, a swivel chair, the moldboard plow, a spherical sundial, a duplication machine, and a cipher wheel that was later "reinvented" prior to World War I and used by the U.S. Army to encrypt messages. Many of Jefferson’s agricultural and mechanical inventions are still in use today, but it is questionable what use he would have ever found (if any) for United States Patent # 4858627 also known as the Smoker’s Hat.

United States Patent 6711769 also known as The Pillow With a Retractable Umbrella , is hardly sweeping the beaches of the nation. The reason for this is because it is a ridiculous invention even though quite practical in concept. The pillow/umbrella may be stored in a case, which permits easy transport and when opened, allows a sun-worshipper to lay his/her head on the pillow while covering their face from sunlight