Blog Entry #10.1: Useful or Useless Inventions?

Normally, inventions are supposed to be of big help. But for now, let's take a break from all seriousness and see some odd inventions. Do you think they're useful or are they "useless"? You be the judge.

We present you 15 weird inventions:

1. Pizza Fork

Saves the trouble of using a knife and fork to cut a small piece of the pizza. You can also just use one hand without getting your hand(s) dirty.













2. Fish Training Kit

The fish training kit can be fun for the fish and the watcher if your fish can perform these 'activities.' Show your friends that your fish can do tricks! They'll be impressed---maybe.






3. The Loo Read

Are you someone who's always busy? Need to read some readings for your school? Papers to read for business?
The Loo Read helps you multi-task: doing your "business" and reading something like the newspaper or perhaps even studying. One can always read there without a table. But maybe if you need to highlight or write things, a Loo Read can help.


4. Motorized Ice Cream Cone

The motorized ice cream cone-- what it does is that it rotates the ice cream for you instead of you manually rotating/twisting your hand for you to lick the melting sides of the ice cream.













5. Butter Stick

Imagine a glue stick. Now imagine that instead of it being a glue, it's butter. That's the basic idea of this invention. There's on need to use a knife to slice butter and spreading it on the bread. Now, there's no need to use a knife to slice butter; you just apply the butter stick to the bread. Saves time!











6. Cat Duster Slippers

Too lazy or too tired to clean your house? Let your pet cat do the cleaning! Just let her wear these cat duster slippers and let them do the house cleaning while you do your other work.















7.  Food Cooler

Food's too hot? Use this food cooling device to blow the heat off for you.












8. Dryear Ear Dryer

According to this, it "prevents swimmer's ear."
Its scientific name is otitis externa. It is an infection of the ear canal. The ear canal is the tubular opening that carries sounds from the outside of the body to the eardrum. Different types of bacteria or fungi can be the main cause of this infection.
This infection occurs many in kids who swim or stay long in water. "Too much moisture in the ear can irritate and break down the skin in the canal, allowing bacteria or fungi to penetrate."









9. "Under-Ease" Anti-flatulence Underwear

 The Under-Ease is an underwear that provides "protection" against human gas or flatulence. "Under-Ease" is an airtight underwear with a replaceable charcoal filter that removes smelly gases before they escape. As the slogan says: "Wear them for the ones you love."







10. PawSense

Chris Niswander invented PawSense, a software that detects when a cat is typing. When cats walk or climb on your keyboard, they can enter random commands and data, damage your files, and even crash your computer. This can happen whether you are near the computer or have suddenly been called away from it. PawSense is a software utility that helps protect your computer from cats. It quickly detects and blocks cat typing, and also helps train your cat to stay off the computer keyboard.



11. Portable Commuter Seat

Train full of people? No space to sit on? The portable commuter seat gives you that space! Just bringing this portable seat with you when you need to use the train and you have a guaranteed seat to sit on. Just try to adapt to the train's speed though. It looks like this can get make you easily unbalanced.








12. Umbrella Headband

If you're lazy to hold the umbrella, now you can let your head hold it. Or perhaps if you're carrying things with both of you hands, and it's difficult to hold the umbrella, this one works. It just might look silly for now.











13. Hay Fever Hat

We all know how annoying colds can be. The Hay Fever Hat is something you strap on and wear. Just pull out some tissue if you have a running nose.















14. Personal Rain Saver

The personal rain saver umbrella catches the rain and transfers it into a container. It's up to your creativity on how to use this water.
















15. Noodle Eater Hair Guard

When women eat, their hair can get caught with the noodles. This hair guard prevents that and prevents you eating those strands of hair.

16. Eye dropper set                                 Got shaky hands? Well, here is an eye dropper set just for you!

                                                                The set includes a pair of funnels attached to tiny holes in the     

 middle of two glass lenses so that dropping eye solution won't 

be a messy affair. Great for those who wear contact lenses 

or have sore eyes!

Although these inventions do not have much great use, they are still innovative nonetheless! They can be of help to certain people, no matter how narrow the market is for these inventions. This just shows how these innovators (who are mostly Japanese) are actually thinking of ways to help people in their own little way. Not just that, but also, they really are serious and hardworking people who would make an idea happen or turn their wild thoughts into something real. These innovations can actually become precursors to even better and revolutionary innovations out there. So, if you have a brilliant idea in mind, no matter how crazy, don't be afraid to work on it! You might just get those 15 seconds of online fame. Also, it wouldn't hurt to exercise your motivation into turning an idea into a creation.

Sources:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1157762/The-useless-inventions-unless-fancy-motorised-ice-cream-cone-ear-dryer.html
http://www.designboom.com/history/useless.html
http://www.hemmy.net/2006/04/27/useless-japanese-inventions/