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Month: January 2022

Some alarming clocks

January 31, 2022 ~ unmakeme ~ Leave a comment

Alarm clock technology is old as heck, so we as a society have centuries of experience with turning off the alarm and going back to sleep.

You’ve heard of cupping, right?

January 28, 2022 ~ unmakeme ~ Leave a comment

The idea is that you apply suction to the body. The vacuum sucks the person's skin up into the cup, causing bruising. And... health?

The E-Meter Patents

January 24, 2022January 23, 2022 ~ unmakeme ~ Leave a comment

If you've spent much time in New York City, you have run into the Church of Scientology offering their "free stress tests." It's worth doing, if you have a few minutes, to see what they're all about.

It’s cold — let’s make a weird mermaid!

January 21, 2022January 19, 2022 ~ unmakeme ~ Leave a comment

We patent attorneys are not typically selected for our skill in depicting the human form.

The Copyright on “I Have a Dream”

January 17, 2022 ~ unmakeme ~ Leave a comment

Permit me to take a small detour from our regularly scheduled patent nonsense to veer into a different IP domain. When the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, it was in a much different copyright regime than what we currently live under. Under the present law, all you need … Continue reading The Copyright on “I Have a Dream”

The EM Drive

January 14, 2022January 12, 2022 ~ unmakeme ~ 2 Comments

The "EM Drive" was a proposed closed-system reactionless thruster. For those of you without physics degrees, that's in the category of "big fucking deals," up there with cold fusion, room-temperature superconductors, and unicorns.

The Anti-Drone Ray Gun

January 10, 2022 ~ unmakeme ~ Leave a comment

I feel a surge of irrational anger every time I see a drone flying around my neighborhood.

Instant Snowman – Just Add Snow

January 7, 2022 ~ unmakeme ~ Leave a comment

Reporting in from the U.S. Northeast, we're getting a big pile of snow dumped on us right now. To put off clearing the driveway, I thought I'd look into snowman patents. Take a guess, how many snowman patents do you think there are? Oh boy, there are a whole lot. A lot of them are … Continue reading Instant Snowman – Just Add Snow

The Banana Protective Device

January 3, 2022 ~ unmakeme ~ Leave a comment

"Necessity is the mother of invention" has a corollary: Strange needs beget strange inventions.

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