I’d say no to inventions nobody needs but watching their video and seeing all their desperate affords makes me kind of sad.
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Apparently cops get hot while driving around … REAL hot. At least that’s what the makers of CoolCop claim. To solve the problem, they’ve invented a device to keep police officers cool:
And if you’re going to be cool, you might as well look cool too - hence the mustache and glasses. Oh yeah. via UniqueDaily
Looking for a way to get some attention on the highway? Try these helium-filled missile balloons:
The concept is pretty simple:
Fill balloons with helium
Attach balloons to car
Drive like a crazy person and delight in other drivers’ reactions
While these were originally created as a Malaysian advertisement that won a CLIO in 2004, MissileBallon.com now sells customizable inflatable missiles on their website.
For some reason, themed designer wedding cakes are now all the rage. I’ve seen cakes shaped like dolphins, islands, and luggage (my brother-in-law’s suitcase cake was so realistic the photographer tried to pick it up).
However, for geeks like me, nothing really compares to the Super Mario Cake:
The entire cake, except for the Mario and Princess on top, are completely edible. I’m particularly amazed at the level of detail … check out these close-ups of a koopa troopa and piranha plants.
Does anyone know what tricks a modern day cake artisan utilizes to create such a masterpiece, and how much it costs? For serious gaming fans, the cost would totally be worth it. Too bad my wife would have never agreed.
A friend showed this to me, so I’m not sure how new it is, but I got a kick out of it. Just go to Google Maps, and search for directions from New York, New York to Paris, France. Pretty standard, right? Scroll down a bit:
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That is brilliant. Exactly what you asked for, but totally unreasonable: if I worked at Google Maps, I’d be doing this kind of smart alec stuff every day. I guess when you ask Google for directions, Google doesn’t play around! Try it for yourself! Just a note, though, if you decide to take these directions, understand that swimming across the Atlantic is moderately impossible.
But if you make it, I want to have my picture taken with you.
When you look at the following picture, what do you see?
A somewhat cute stuffed beaver, right? Kasey McMahon thought nothing of the sort … she saw a perfect housing for “the busiest of machines”, and thus the idea for Compubeaver was hatched. Compubeaver became a labor of love, starting with the first incision:
Turns out that a surgical knife just didn’t cut through beaver very well, so she resorted to the trusty electric turkey knife:
In the end, her biggest stumbling block was cooling down the beaver. The first beaver got terribly excited once she inserted the plug, and started showing the blue screen of death after only a few minutes. Sounds like a few of my more embarrassing college dates!
To solve the problem, she inserted an extra fan and power supply in the beaver’s rear end:
Voilà, a beaver that blows hot air and can play games all night. What computer enthusiast wouldn’t want that? Finally, here’s the beaver in action:
This beaver is quick too - it sports an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 160GB Hard drive, and 1 GB or RAM. That’s one beaver I wouldn’t mind sitting on my desk at home!
Jim Miller and Fred Meyer have invented a hat, using turkey basters and birthday party noisemakers, that serves as musical accompaniment while helping “harmonically impaired musicians” trying to follow along. Honey, take note … I’m officially the “chord hat” to my Christmas list:
(if you can’t see the video, click here, thanks to engadget for the link)
My first thought after seeing this was: “why stop with 3 turkey basters, why not cover the full scale?” Apparently they were thinking the same thing when they invented the more dynamic “pipe hat”:
Sure, the music is of rather dubious quality … but so is half the stuff on the radio. I think aging teen musicians should wear these in concert to help their slipping popularity. Who wouldn’t pay $50 to see Hillary Duff strutting her stuff with a dozen turkey basters onstage?
I’m always looking for ways to get more done in less time. Now I’ve found my ideal solution - a hip clothing line that helps to block out almost all unnecessary distractions.
Take this stylish girl, who happens to be wearing a privacy scarf, for example:
On cold days she can keep her neck warm as she’s walking from Pilates class to the sushi bar, and if she gets a text message on her Blackberry she can quickly pull up her scarf to type away in private:
Or possibly just take some time off to play a little Nintendo?
Now that’s style!
The designer also created a full-sized hoodie for computer use at home. It comes complete with earmuffs to block out sound, and even sports a microphone in the back so friends, spouses, and the fire department can get your attention:
As silly as they look, I’d actually buy one … and wear it on an airplane. There’s nothing worse than spending two hours trying to convince the guy in seat 2A to stop giving me freecell tips. I wonder if airplane safety rules would allow it?
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