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Motorized Picnic Table: Great Idea?

Posted December 1st, 2008 by M Dee Dubroff

US Patent 6637349, the Motorized Picnic Table made its entrance in 2003. Was it an attempt to escape from invading ants or merely a conveyance designed to provide the appropriate setting for “eaters on the run?” Read on, but you may not get your answer.

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Russia vs. Georgia: Computer Game Brings Blood Right To Your Door

Posted November 30th, 2008 by M Dee Dubroff

This Russian strategy game is expected to go on sale next month just in time to become the perfect gift for all the war mongers on your gift list, The game encompasses many of the possible war tactics and repercussions that could occur between Georgia and Russia. Read on, but check your guns at the door.

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Condom Advent Calendar: Great Idea?

Posted November 30th, 2008 by M Dee Dubroff

Patent #GB 2,328,762 represents proof positive that not all the ridiculous patents in the world come from the land of the free and the brave. If you don’t believe me, just read on and learn more about this English Condom Advent Calendar comprised of 25 condoms, each held behind a respective door, just like Monty Hall’s old television show, Let’s Make a Deal.

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Beware Governments Bearing Gifts: Trojan Horse Still Lives

Posted November 29th, 2008 by M Dee Dubroff

What do vodka, samovars and matryoska all have in common? Don’t they all sound like innocuous and very proper Russian souvenirs? Well, beware, as many Russian souvenirs in the past have led double lives as cunning spy gadgets. Read on, but check over your shoulder.

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Life Expectancy Timepiece: Great Idea?

Posted November 29th, 2008 by M Dee Dubroff

Patent # 5,031,161 refers to a Lifetime Expectancy Timepiece, which is designed to inform those among us who simply must know everything exactly how much time we have left to live on this planet. If this sounds god-like and presumptuous, that’s because it is, and so much…more. Read on and wish with all your heart that you were somewhere else.

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Forehead Support Apparatus: Great Idea?

Posted November 28th, 2008 by M Dee Dubroff

It is not known if the inventor of Patent #6,681,419 was a drinker or no, but that would offer one explanation for this bizarre Forehead Support Apparatus, designed for resting a standing user’s forehead against a wall above a bathroom commode or beneath a showerhead. Read on and…be amazed.

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International Space Station: A Ten-Year Anniversary

Posted November 27th, 2008 by M Dee Dubroff

Exactly a decade ago on November 20, 1998, a Russian Proton rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, initiating the world’s most ambitious space project, which is due for completion in 2011. Read all about its amazing history.

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Anti-Eating Face Mask: Great idea?

Posted November 27th, 2008 by M Dee Dubroff

US Patent #4344424, also known as the Anti-Eating Face Mask, surely represents a new low in the world of dieting and food-deprivation, not to mention a direct and simplistic but rather silly way to go about the house on a daily basis.

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Russian Bellona Project: Technology to Capture and Store Carbon Dioxide

Posted November 26th, 2008 by M Dee Dubroff

Russian scientists have developed a new technology that will capture and store carbon dioxide as a solution for climate change. Researchers claim their method is the only effective way to reduce carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere, thus stabilizing Earth’s volatile climatic changes. Read on for details, but bring along both mittens and sunscreen, just in case.

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Odors to Treat Male Impotence: Great idea?

Posted November 26th, 2008 by M Dee Dubroff

US Patent # 5,885,614 dates back to March of 2000 and hails from Chicago, the city of wind (hot and otherwise), and sometimes, silly invention ideas. Presented as an alternative to Viagra, the only stimulation required for this invention to work is your nose. I know, don’t ask, but read on and sort of be informed.

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