I did not expect this cross-cultural carnivorous bounty.
Love Meats
Author: unmakeme
The Electret Microphone
Featuring another Black inventor, the electret microphone is in basically everything.
The Radio Smellfinder
Buckle up, because this is a weird one.
The Super Soaker patents
When I was a kid, whoever had the biggest, coolest Super Soaker was king.
Some alarming clocks
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?
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
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!
We patent attorneys are not typically selected for our skill in depicting the human form.
The Copyright on “I Have a Dream”
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
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.
Patenting the odd, the impossible, and the unnerving 