invention
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Can Software Be an ‘Inventor’?
It was the veritable search for a needle in a haystack. With drug-resistant bacteria on the rise, researchers at MIT were sifting through a database of more than 100 million molecules to identify a few that might have antibacterial properties. Fortunately, the search proved successful. But it wasn’t a human who found the promising molecules.…
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If This Product Is Real, We’ve Passed Peak Vibrator
Someone please tell me this is a hoax. Announced yesterday with a tweet, the IziVibe claims to be a vibrating dildo you attach to your phone.
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There Was No Viagra In 1918. But There Was This Penis Splint.
Nearly 100 years ago, there was no drug to help with erectile dysfunction, but Bernard Scheinkman came up with an alternative. It’s not clear whether this nightmarish penile splint was ever manufactured — but you have to love the baroque logic of combining a cock ring, an open condom and a shelf.
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Why The Hell Don’t All Cars Have This Awesome Spare Tyre Parking System
The space tyre is sitting useless most of the time in the boot of all cars. However, back the ’50s, one inventor thought it could be put to good use to easily park cars in parallel. Why the hell didn’t this invention become standard in every single car?