Posts Tagged ‘Patents’

If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life. ~ Bill Watterson It would seem that the Peanut Butter Batter Pancake Mix , which is also known as Patent #US 6797310 , has already been created in some form or other, especially considering that George Washington Carver developed more than one hundred recipes utilizing peanuts in his attempts to improve the quality of life for poor southern farmers

Has transportation reached new lows?

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

Go to bed in your fireplace.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth .”~ George Burns United States Patent #5678617 i s an i nvention that involves a novelty device with a hidden control that is installed in a bar or counter. When a patron orders a drink, the bartender or host places a drinking glass upon a designated location on top of the bar and, unbeknownst to the patron, activates a hidden control

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.

US Patent #4344424 , the Anti-Eating Face Mask , has been around for a few decades, but there can be little doubt that it is just as silly today as it was when the original patent was issued to a woman from Sacramento (whose name is being withheld to protect the silly).

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

Don't you sometimes wish that you could tell your guests to leave? Maybe it's not that they bore you, you're just not in the mood for company. Well, look at this crazy doormat….

Great service has been done to mankind by a company called " Garment Guard " that has been selling thin disposable cotton underarm inserts. These inserts stick to clothing and absorb perspiration to prevent an embarrassing wet mark.