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Tag: invention

Head-on train collision: A solution

February 15, 2010 Marc Abrahams

Flann O’Brien devised a way to minimize the damage that results when trains collide head-on. This diagram, with an accompanying explanation, is reprinted in the book The Best of Myles (it originally appeared in The Irish Times):

Arts and Sciencecollision, Flann O'Brien, invention, train

Dr. Nakamats and his Love Jet

February 3, 2010 Marc Abrahams

A third scene from the documentary about Ig Nobel Prize winner Dr. Nakamats. This is about the Love Jet, one of his many inventions. It pertains to sex.

Arts and Science, Ig Nobel, Improbable Investigators, Research Newsinvention, love jet, Nakamats, sex

Recycing: office-to-loo converter

January 31, 2010 Marc Abrahams

Investigator Ura Daniels recommends this DigInfo News report: At Eco-Products 2009, Oriental Co., Ltd. exhibited a revolutionary recycling machine called White Goat, which makes toilet paper from shredded paper. White Goat also has a shredding machine in it…. The dry paper is wound into finished toilet rolls, which emerge from the outlet one at a […]

Arts and Scienceinvention, machine, office, recycling, toilet paper

7500 artificial stomachs

January 26, 2010 Marc Abrahams

“The world’s leading supplier of artificial laboratory stomachs just sold their 7500th unit, and they want the world to know about it,” writes investigator Alan Dove. These electromechanical stomachs are more angular than their biological distant brethren. The Stomacher 400, pictured here, possibly in the act of vomiting, is also the subject of a narrated […]

Arts and Scienceblender, equipment, invention, stomach

“Please stop, I’m bored” mug

November 29, 2009 Marc Abrahams

We proudly introduce this coffee mug — the first technology spin-off from the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. The ceremony always proceeds briskly, thanks to Miss Sweetie Poo, a very cute eight-year-old girl. Whenever Miss Sweetie Poo feels that a speaker has talked long enough, she walks up to that person and says, “Please stop. I’m […]

Arts and Science, Ig NobelCoffee, gift, invention, mug, sweetie poo, tea

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