Ronald Stuart Cutlip – a New York based Golf Course Architect and Real Estate Agent – has invented a new type of undergarment – and has recently received a US patent for it ( March 16th 2010 ). “An article of clothing including a pair of underwear for a male adult comprises a waistband, an […]
Month: March 2010
Ig winner’s anti-allergy ringtone
Dr. Matsumi Suzuki [pictured here], who shared the 2002 Ig Nobel peace prize (for inventing Bow-Lingual, the dog-language-to-human-language translation device) has a new invention he says will treat allergies. Roland Buerk of the BBC reports (with a brief recording of the sound): For relief, sufferers need only wait for a call on their mobile phone. […]
Self-Treatments of ‘Writer’s Block’
The medical literature contains these two excessively brief accounts of self-treatment for the ailment known as “writer’s block”. Each can be downloaded in its entirety, in PDF form: 1. “The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of ‘Writer’s Block‘” Dennis Upper, Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 1974 Fall; 7(3): 497. (Thanks to Eric Geigle for bringing […]
Brit adapts S African auto flamethrower
A British gentleman has built upon the pioneering research of 1999 Ig Nobel Peace Prize winners Charl Fourie and Michelle Wong of Johannesburg, South Africa (who were honored for inventing an automobile burglar alarm consisting of a detection circuit and a flamethrower). The Daily Telegraph reports: Flame-thrower scooter owner arrested Colin Furze, a plumber [and […]