Top 10 Ig Nobels of All Time by Popular Mechanics
May be you have been read this stuff, there are 10 unique invention such as engineering solutions, science products and peer-reviewed papers, that should make you laugh and then think. Here is some of them:
Clocky Alarm Clock
If hitting the snooze bar every morning is part of your daily routine, Clocky might solve your problems. This alarm clock on wheels motors itself away–off the dresser and onto the floor–and hides, forcing you to get out of bed, find it and turn it off. Gauri Nanda, at the time a graduate student at MIT, won the Ig Nobel prize in Economics in 2005 for her invention of Clocky, which is currently available at nandahome.com.
Reinventing the Wheel
In 2001, the Australian Patent Office issued a patent for that year’s Ig Nobel Prize in Technology–the wheel. Patent lawyer John Keogh specified on his application that he had created a “circular transportation facilitation device,” and included detailed diagrams of his invention. Keogh was reportedly trying to demonstrate that the system in Australia used to award innovation patents was flawed, and that the office was simply rubber-stamping submitted applications.
The Science of Sword Swallowing
Dan Meyer won an Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2007 for his study, “Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects,” which was published in the British Medical Journal in 2006. At a recent meeting of scientists and science writers in Chicago, he demonstrated the act, swallowing a 15-in. sword. In the journal, Meyer described the task in detail: He has to suppress the gag reflex, carefully slip the sword past his voice box and into his esophagus, flip his epiglottis (the small flap of tissue that ensures that food enters the stomach instead of the lungs), repress the waves of muscle contraction that normally push food down the esophagus, ever so gently nudge his heart to the left and finally repress the retching reflex in his stomach. He could have swallowed a longer sword, he said, but had just eaten Chinese food for lunch, and wasn’t sure how well it would go down.
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