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    Talking Useless Inventions

    USELESS INVENTIONS


    1. Non stick Cellotape - it exists !!!!!
    2. Solar Powered Flash Light
    3. A black highlighter pen
    4. Glow in the dark sunglasses
    5. Inflatable Anchor
    6. Smooth Sandpaper
    7. Waterproof sponge
    8. Waterproof Teabags
    9. AC adapter for Solar powered calculators
    10. Fireproof Matches
    11. Fireproof Cigarettes
    12. Battery powered Battery Charger
    13. Seatbelts for Motorbikes
    14. Hand powered Chainsaw
    15. Inflatable Dartboard
    16. Silent Alarm Clock
    17. A Pedal powered wheelchair
    18. Braille Drivers Manual
    19. Double sided playing cards
    20. Ejector seats for Helicopters

    and these too......?

    Screen window for a submarine
    Helicopter with an injection seat
    Inflatable dart board
    A tape on how to program your vcr
    The water proof tea bag
    Water proof towel
    A book on how to read
    A dictionary index
    Powdered water
    Pedal-powered wheel chair



    If you have one post them here.....
    Prince Loeffler
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    missed the obvious:

    chocolate teapot.
    Huw Larsen

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    You forgot two of the biggest ones that do exist:


    Non-alcoholic Beer (The man who invented this should be slapped and sterilized).

    Decafeinated Coffee (Again, a slapping and snipping will be needed).

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    Default Re: Useless Inventions

    Originally posted by Prince Loeffler
    USELESS INVENTIONS

    8. Waterproof Teabags
    15. Inflatable Dartboard
    17. A Pedal powered wheelchair
    20. Ejector seats for Helicopters

    and these too......?

    Helicopter with an injection seat
    Inflatable dart board
    The water proof tea bag
    Pedal-powered wheel chair
    Obviously a redundancy checker seemed redundant.
    Yours in Budo,
    ---Brian---

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    20. Ejector seats for Helicopters
    Actually I know of 2 different systems for this.

    1.) The Main Rotor gets blown off and than the seat ejects.
    2.) The seat ejects SIDEWAYS from the helicopter.

    Don't know if they have been put to use as such, but I have seen footage of them being tested.


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    They sure have. The KA-50 and Ka-52 have ejection seats - the rotors are blown prior to ejection. Some work was done to incorporate an ejection seat into the AH-1 Cobra, but interest waned and it was abandoned.
    David F. Craik

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    Default Re: Useless Inventions

    Originally posted by Prince Loeffler
    USELESS INVENTIONS
    2. Solar Powered Flash Light
    9. AC adapter for Solar powered calculators
    16. Silent Alarm Clock
    The above do exist.

    2 - My girlfriend owns one
    9 - I used to have a solar powered calculator in which there was this ac adapter input, I think.
    16 - For deaf people. No joke. It shakes like a mobile phone on the vibration mode.

    cheers,
    Sidarta de Lucca

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    Default Re: Re: Useless Inventions

    Originally posted by Sidarta
    16 - For deaf people. No joke. It shakes like a mobile phone on the vibration mode.
    A deaf friend of mine has a silent door bell. It basically rattles on the ground and he can feel it vibrate.

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    Hellen Keller apparently had an alarm clock contraption that would gently shake her bed when it was time to get up.
    David F. Craik

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    *must.........resist.........urge.........to post.........
    ........Helen.............Keller.............jokes.......*

    Cheers,

    Mike

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    Originally posted by Mike Williams
    *must.........resist.........urge.........to post.........
    ........Helen.............Keller.............jokes.......*
    Steady! Steady!

    And whatever you do, don't think about a waffle iron!
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    Originally posted by Soulend
    Hellen Keller apparently had an alarm clock contraption that would gently shake her bed when it was time to get up.
    It takes someone to keep punching me in the back of the head to get me out of bed.

    "Snooze... Need more snoooooze" - Homer

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