Posts Tagged ‘fun’

Patent# US 6796671 shocks the user while he or she is eating. It is the result of the fertile imaginations behind the toy company known as Ruddell Design

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.

Issued in the summer of 1991, Patent #5,031,161, the Lifetime Expectancy Timepiece consists of a starting mechanism for causing the timer to begin measuring the elapsed time from the moment of birth and includes a processor programmed to measure it. Seeming truly like an overlooked plot straight out of The Twilight Zone, this Life Expectancy Timepiece has always had a questionable market value.

US Patent # 5,885,614 provides an olfactory experience known as Odors to Treat Male Impotence . The patent is based on the principle that smelling Certain combinations of odors will effectively increase blood flow in certain parts of the male anatomy.

Is there anyone out there who isn’t familiar with the high five celebratory gesture made by two people, each raising one hand to slap the raised hand of the other? Its dates back to 1944 when in the movie, Cover Girl (1944), Phil Silvers’ character, Genius, tears up a telegram and attempts to "high five" co-star, Gene Kelly. The “high five” is conventionally meant to communicate mutual satisfaction to spectators or to extend congratulations from one person to another.

I wonder what Juliet would have said about cockroaches.

What is a former, self-respecting hand-grenade supposed to do with itself these days anyway?

Moss design store, known by many a design reviewer as, "the best design store in the world," has many extraordinary creations by world renowned interior and industrial designers. I got caught up in browsing through some chair designs on the Moss website, particularly the stuffed animal chair designs of Brazilian brother design team of Fernando and Humberto Campana. The first animal chair I visited was the Banquete Chair With Alligators .

Bathroom scales are fair weather friends. One day they say "Right on, girl! You're loosin' it baby." The very next day, they say that you've gained three pounds in the last 24 hours! Art de Toilette, the creative space of San Franciscan Wendy Gold, can help you out with a custom scale that, at the very least, will soften the blow when it comes. Whether it's humor, inspiration, or a good scolding you want when you get on your scale, you can have it from Art de Toilette.

Barcodes or UPC symbols are boring reminders that we are all, among other things, a civilization of consumers. Up until now, there was no distinguishing one from another and surely no one could have envisioned that the day would come when these silly, innocuous thin black lines would reflect artistic talent and creativity. You will be amazed at what can be done with a few straight lines and a push to think outside of a very ordinary box