Archive for the 'Humor' Category
Video: What a 5-Year Old Thinks of That Logo
Video: Rube Goldberg-ian Page Turner
To some it may be a waste of time, to Joseph Herscher it is fun. He has designed a Rube Goldberg-style, 19 step system to turn the pages of his newspaper.
Small Boston Biz Gets Boost From Beyonce’s Baby Name
Usually when a celebrity couple has a baby, the only interest is among people who follow celebrity news and gossip. However, when Beyonce and Jay-Z decided to name their baby Blue Ivy, one small business was lucky enough to see some headline interest as well. The company and the baby share the same name, reports [...]
Car Seat Identifies Drivers By Their Bums
According to Japanese researchers at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Tokyo, it is possible to identify drivers by the way their weight is distributed on the car seat. The team has developed a car seat that can identify drivers when they sit down. It seems that everyone’s bum is as unique as a [...]
Huffpost Tech: A Japanese inventor has revealed his latest creation – an LED inserted in your nose that lights up when you breathe. The strange device casts a ghostly blue light through your nostril every time it senses a draft. It is the brainchild of Noda Akira, who says he simply attached a temperature monitor [...]
Movie Inventions We Wish Were Real
What movie inventions do you wish were real? Here are two recently shared by Flavorwire. Time-traveling DeLorean Everyone’s favorite inventor, Doc Brown, didn’t hurt his reputation by inventing a solution to everyone’s most maddening frustration: time. Back to the Future’s plutonium-powered DeLorean travels through the space-time continuum in style — and even more so after [...]
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Rocket Mail, 1931 Before “rocketmail” was the name of a short-lived free e-mail service in the late ’90s, it was an idea propounded by German inventor Professor Oberth, who thought it was a good idea to literally use a high-velocity, ill-aimed projectile to deliver mail from Berlin to New York City. He claimed to be [...]
Vending Machine Suggests Your Drink
Japan has vending machines that can talk to you, sell you everything from bags of rice to bouquets of flowers, and recharge your phone. But a new breed of automated seller has smarts, too–these machines can detect your age and gender and offer drink suggestions accordingly. Run by a company under the JR East railway [...]
Names like Levi Strauss and Rube Goldberg are generally well known for many reasons, but the Quincy Herald Whig looks at what these people did before they reached fame. Levi Strauss (1829-1902) Twenty-four-year-old Levi Strauss left New York for San Francisco in 1853 to open a dry goods store with his sister and brother-in-law. They [...]
Even The Snowman Has Been Patented
Making a snowman seems simple enough. You roll the balls of snow around until they are the size you want, and you stack them. Once they’re stacked, decorate your new snowman as you see fit. However, one inventor has decided his frosty deserves to be patented. In the patent application Ignacio Marc Asperas from Melville, [...]
Canada.com: A new library in Surrey, B.C., will be home to a “human library,” with people on loan as living books. The $36-million Surrey City Centre library, set to open at the end of the month, will allow users to “check out” people and pick their brains about their experiences with blindness, immigration, religion or [...]
After you’re done using your iPhone app to find cheap beer, take a look at some inventions inspired by the alcoholic beverage found on Philly.com. Party Goggles, application No. 12/927,974, by Bruce Riggs of Helendale, Calif. “How many times,” Riggs asks in his application, “have we all been stuck at a fetid fete marooned at [...]
Wrongulator: The Calculator That is Always Wrong
The Wrongulator, from Red5, is no ordinary calculator. It is, in fact, the world’s worst calculator as it never gives the right answer, ever! If your calculator has been exchanged for this one then every single calculation you’ve entered in it has been wrong. It is perhaps the cruelest practical joke you could inflict on [...]
Scenic, South Dakota for Sale: $799k
The entire town of Scenic, South Dakota is up for sale, and boy is it scenic! The property is posted on buyscenicsd.com, which offers video tours of various locations. Cow skulls adorn the sign for the Longhorn Saloon, which advertises tobacco, lunch and dancing — in that order. 46-Acres (approximately 12 acres in town-lots & [...]
A new fad, when interviewing candidates for a potential job, is to ask them ridiculous questions in an effort to figure out how they think. For tough or oddball interview questions, it’s not always about getting the right answers it’s about how you tackle a challenging problem. The question for employers may be really about [...]
What Makes A Mormon Entrepreneur?
Deseret News: Take two cups of creativity, add a cup of practical thinking and season the mix with market savvy. That’s the recipe for making a Mormon entrepreneur. In recent years, clever Mormon “marketeers” have pitched everything from having your family history printed on a set of brass plates (complete with rings) to action figures [...]
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Would this get you out of bed in the morning? It’s just a concept for now, but regardless of federal laws on the matter, I think that this money shredder would be a money maker. Whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, [...]
When The Internet is Down, I Feel Like This
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Video: How Not to Move Furniture
Of course it’s a fake, but it’s funny.
If there was ever a day to watch your back, today would be it. Pranks are everywhere, including your inbox. If you love the newest game systems that allow you to use your body as a controller, you will appreciate the new system from Google that will allow you to control Gmail using your body. [...]
When most people think of a death ray, the first thing that comes to mind is a silly cartoon gun that one character may use on an object to make it disintegrate. One kid has decided to make the device a little more realistic. Unlike the cartoon representation, Eric Jacqmain’s death ray is not a [...]
Could you imagine how much money you would make if every salesman that came to your door had to pay $.10 before they could get your attention? Here’s an old take on a unique approach that might even scare off the unwanted visitors of today. Via Dvorak Uncensored
Google’s App Inventor Aids In… Marriage Proposals?
While some people are trying to find unique ways to promote their business using Google’s App Inventor, which is currently available by invitation only, one man decided this was the perfect opportunity to propose to his girlfriend. Disguising the proposal as a contest for tickets to the opening of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, [...]
Ruth Haldeman moved to rural Hot Springs, Ark., in 2002 and promptly took in a couple of orphan chicks. She soon discovered chickens poop–a lot. According to Entrepreneur.com, in the interest of keeping her house relatively clean, Haldeman broke out her sewing machine and designed a roomy cloth diaper with a disposable liner. As time [...]
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Entrepreneur magazine reports that a fellow home brewer e-mailed Eric Olson a photo of a crazy-looking pub on wheels in Europe. “I said, ‘Damn, this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen in my life.’” He tracked down the creators–brothers Henk and Zwier van Laar in (where else?) Amsterdam–and asked how to make [...]
He was born Soren Adam Sorensen in Denmark in 1879 and migrated to the US with his family at age four, and grew up in Perth Amboy, New Jersey where his father operated a saloon. In 1904 Adams found himself employed as a salesman for a dye company. One of the products he sold caused [...]
Unique products to amuse and inspire. Batter Finger Spatula. What! Your finger’s not good enuff? Bubble Wrap Tie. Gives you something to do in those boring meetings. Band-Aid Music Player. “I am stuck on Band-aid brand cause Band-aid stuck on me….” Barbie Pooping Dog. And I always thought Barbie was a cat person. Photos/videos by [...]
Great Inventors Deserve Great License Plates
Vanity plates are everywhere. They can stand for a name, a simple word, or have a special meaning. The Quincy Herald-Whig recently took a look at some great inventors from our past and what vanity plates would best suit them. What would your license plate say? Thomas Edison set an American record that might never [...]
Niche Biz: Funny Employee Awards
Know a person at work that would be perfect for The Heinz Ketchup Award for always making others wait? How about “The Human Vulture Award For Eating Anything Found Lying Around” for the person always stealing your lunch? Small businesses are looking for ways to cut thelr budgets and one of the first thlngs to [...]
Somebody at sometime thought these items were a good idea. Combo Light Switch/Hook. Now lazy people can hang up their clothes and turn off the light in one step. Sandal/with bottle opener. Never know when you’re gonna need to crack open a cold one. Cat Pencil Sharpener. I didn’t even know cats could write. Portable [...]
Bacon-related products to inspire and amuse. Effervescent Bacon Drink Tablets. If you drop one of these magic tablets into a glass of water it will instantly begin to dissolve, creating a cascade of bubbles that will infuse the water with a delicious bacon flavor. Great for making bizarre beverages or slipping into a friend’s drink [...]
Unique Products To Inspire And Amuse. Now I can REALLY use my iPad. Soft, warm, blue and enormous, ’nuff said. Honey, I had a dream I was at Denny’s. Heck, it worked for ZZ Top. These products are actually a product themselves…Prank Packs. Arik Nordby makes fake gift boxes, and his company 30Watt is releasing [...]
Liven up your front window with a this humorous open sign that reads “Sorry We’re Open” on one side and “Come in We’re Closed” on the other.
Toe Puppets Next show after my pedicure. Anti-Eating Mask You only eat fava beans and a nice Chianta. Device For Moistening The Adhesive Coating On Postage Stamps And Envelopes I got no spit. Apparatus For Facilitating The Birth Of A Child By Centrifugal Force Mom, tell me again how I was born… Photos by USPTO.
Daniel Heggarty from St. Louis, MO, wrote in to share his gloriously convoluted machine with Makezine.com. This room was constructed with the humor of Rube Goldberg cartoons in mind at the St. Louis City Museum. Developed organically, the room started with one exercycle on the bench and the thought, “What can this become?” From there, [...]
Mail Order Animal Bizop from 1972
Flickr user BryantSpokane scanned and posted a page from a 1972 Stromberg’s Chicks & Pets Unlimited catalog. Stromberg’s apparently used to mail-order live chickens, chinchillas, ferrets, armadillos, skunks, badgers, beavers, possums, prairie dogs, and other critters. This particular page highlights the money making aspects of owning fur-bearing animals. via BoingBoing.
Political Masks Are So Last Year!
The New York Times reports that all across the Gulf Coast and the country, the costume inspiring guffaws and flying off the shelves consists of a green jumpsuit covered in oil with BP in a sunburst logo over the left breast. The BP stands for “bad planning,” according to its creator, a Long Island company [...]
According to the creator of this video, the penny is a “disgusting bacteria-ridden disks of suck that fail to facilitate commerce.” What do you think?
Toaster Burns Jesus Into Every Slice Of Toast
A new toaster has emerged that makes it possible to burn Jesus into a slice of toast every time you use it reports newsoxy. The toaster went on sale last week starting at $39.95. It takes your daily bread and burns the image of Christ on it. The inventor hopes to expand by introducing more [...]
Bacon Edition – products to inspire and amuse. Bacon Math Tattoo Jones Bacon Soda Maple Bacon Ice Cream Bacon Light… Photos by holykaw.alltop.com/agoodappetite/thedailybacon.com.
Unique products to amuse and inspire. Musical Beer Bottles. 99 bottles of beer on the wall…. Wunda Weeder. Take gardening work lying down Evian Live Young T-shirt. Does my butt look small in this? Guitar Spatula. Flip your pancakes without missing a beat. Photos by trendhunter/Wunda Products/incrediblethings/.
The Snogometer is not some new fancy device. Rather, this invention is the product of a 16 year old mind from the 60′s reports the BBC. Designed to measure the power of a kiss, the archive Pathé news footage shows Malcolm putting his startling development through its paces whilst his mother (yes it is actually [...]
Unique products to inspire and amuse. Baby’s First Smartphone. What’s next? Baby’s first Prius? Stay Puft Caffeinated Gourmet Marshmallows. I gotta cram for an exam, get me the caffeinated marshmallows, stat. Celebrity Phone Stickers. Uh, excuse me while I take this call from Einstein…. Meatball Bubble Gum. That’s Italian! Photos by thinkgeek/trendhunter.
Some pet owners don’t want to show their babies off to the world though and would rather throw them in a backpack. For these “animal lovers,” this specialty back pack pet carrier is a godsend, as it allows the animal just enough air to breathe and limits their ability to harm the user through the [...]
Unique products to inspire and amuse. Daddle Saddle. Ol’ Dad just wasn’t good enough. Squeez Bacon. Does it come with a nipple? Weird Luggage Stickers. Slap them on your buddie’s suitcase, then step back and watch the fun. 12 Beer Can Holster. Perfect for your hard-to-buy-for alcoholic friends. Photos by incrediblethings.com/toxel.com/inewidea.com/uniquedaily.com.
Unique products to inspire and amuse. Bacon Refrigerator Magnets. Bacon is everywhere. Stiletto Speakers. When your Blaupunkts just don’t cut it. iPlunge iPhone & iPad Stands. Can also be used to unclog drains. USB Hamster Wheel. Just don’t let your PETA friends see it. Photos by trendhunter.com.
