Behold Mumms’ champagne-cork-RFID narcissism amplifier. This promotional video from, by, and for champagne-maker G.H. Mumm, shows how an RFID [radio frequency identification] chip, coupled to a corked champaign bottle, can be used to trigger a spotlight and attention to shine on the restaurant table at which the bottle of champaign is being opened, thus drawing attention to the persons who […]
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Extracting a stuck wine cork — or a new child [patent applications]
Extracting a stuck wine cork from a bottle inspired this method for bringing a child into the world. Jorge Ernesto Odon of Argentina invented a new method for assisting the birth of a child, using an insertable, inflatable bag to grip the child’s head, in the same way one can extract a cork that has […]
Fruit bat award awakens memories in Ireland
The Irish newspaper The Independent reports, in the wake of the 2010 Ig Nobel Biology Prize being awarded to the scientists who documented fellatio in fruit bats, on allegedly-sordid doings in the city of Cork: Notorious fruit bat research wins ‘Ig Nobel’ prize AN ACADEMIC paper about oral sex among fruit bats — which sparked […]