‘Everything that can be invented has been invented.’ Perhaps you have heard this quote before, attributed to a Charles Duell, commissioner of the US patents office in 1899. This is a funny story, but it is not actually a true one. Still, sometimes I like to have fun thinking of all the things that had not yet been invented in 1899. You know, useful things. Amazing things. Inventions that have had a great deal of impact and importance in our lives.
Like… inflatable toast! You can buy 6 inch tall vinyl toast that you can blow up and carry around with you in case, um, you’re not actually hungry but you feel like having some toast on hand. It’s comforting!
No, I don’t really understand, either. I don’t think there is anything to understand.
Hey! I am surely not the only one to have had the urge to smash her alarm clock into tiny little pieces and consider throwing it out the window and then climbing out after it and jumping on it until it is so much dust WHY WON’T YOU STOP THAT ANNOYING SELF-SATISFIED BEEP, ALARM CLOCK? Well, perhaps a clever novelty alarm clock would be the solution to that or, indeed, perhaps the source of the problem. Either way, allow me to present you with the Flying Alarm Clock.
According to the website, it ‘launches a flying propellor when the alarm time is reached’. You have to retrieve the propellor from wherever it has flown to and put it back on the clock base in order to stop the alarm going off. It sounds pretty great, but, were I to possess it, I might well crush it in my sleepy rage within a week.
Have you ever wanted a solar-powered bra? I sure hav- I mean, no, I didn’t think you did, of course not, who’d want that and what exactly would you be powering anyway? I’m glad you asked, gentle reader.
A solar panel attached to the Solar Brasserie powers a small electrical bulletin board which, ahem, I’m sure you could find some uses for. Apparently you can store liquids in the padding and there’s a means of inserting a straw, in case that is a thing you are inclined to do. Also, the cloth they use is organic, just so we all know.
Thus this post is concluded.