Weird and Wacky Engineering
What were they thinking: Slithering a snake
Brian Bailey
6/7/2013 11:44 AM EDT
How many of you have a pet snake and want to take it for slither? Well, you just may need this invention...
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Battar
The text of the abstract and claim shows up the apparent inability of patent attorneys to construct ...
What were they thinking: Overly complex design
Brian Bailey
5/31/2013 11:29 AM EDT
I think Wile E. Coyote was the kind of person who created many of the patents I find to write about in my “what were they thinking” series. You know what I mean – those absurdly complicated gadgets...
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krwada
To tell you the truth ... I would have used a pressurized canister of ethyl ether as the 'blower'. ...
Clive Maxfield
5/28/2013 2:19 PM EDT
I've been playing with the Image Blender app on my iPad, and I have to say that it is a LOT of fun.
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Max the Magnificent
Hi Carolyn -- I will do so -- thanks for the suggestion -- Max
What were they thinking: Confessing to an apparition
Brian Bailey
5/24/2013 11:01 AM EDT
This is an interesting patent in that it has some sensible elements and some that are are totally crazy...
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resistion
Hilarious
What do Bob Dylan, Woodstock, and Wavy Gravy have to do with Design West?
Clive Maxfield
3/25/2013 5:46 PM EDT
Sometimes the way the world works leaves me gasping with astonishment and delight.
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Max the Magnificent
You are correct about the Oakland A's -- Stacy also told me how this all came about -- I could have ...
Blast from the past – Practical Wireless mags circa 1972
Clive Maxfield
3/8/2013 5:23 PM EST
Ooooh, this takes me back. I just opened the first one from January 1972. There's no way to artificially replicate that 41-year-old magazine smell.
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Asad.Asif
Agreed! Wish there were digital copies (scanned or otherwise) of old electronics related magazines.
In space no one can hear you scream… or can they?
Clive Maxfield
3/1/2013 10:14 AM EST
An experiment that will change the scientific world forever – a plan so audacious that not even NASA has attempted it!
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Max the Magnificent
LOL
VHF, VHF, wherefore art thou VHF?
Clive Maxfield
2/26/2013 1:17 PM EST
I want a small box that can connect via WiFi to the Internet on one side and stream live television (in the form of a VHF signal) out of the other side.
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AustinTim
Max, Did the digital converter work? If you want one of those anything inputs to VHF I've got ...
Clive Maxfield
2/22/2013 10:35 AM EST
You would not believe the wonderful little retro portable TV I just discovered at Mock Electronics.
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Max the Magnificent
They do? They never mentioned that (the little rascals) ... but to be fair I never asked :-)
Clive Maxfield
2/21/2013 12:12 PM EST
So many product test videos show the products only in a good light, so the fact that some of these videos show the products failing puts an interesting spin on things.
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Max the Magnificent
It would have to be a really big blender for a notepad (more like a cement mixer :-)