Stuff I found at work

As you might already know, I started my internship two weeks ago. (and I just got my first salary today, yippee! lol) I basically spend the whole day in front of a computer doing research. And in my searches, I arrived on a site called Patent Storm where we can find all sorts of patents. On the left of the page, there was a box entitled "bizarre patents" and there was a link to a patent called "behaviour modification wristwatch". Being curious, I decided to have a quick look. And on that page there was another box, with another link...this time to a "banana protective device"! This is even better than the first one!

And besides that, someone also came up with a "method of swinging on a swing"... These patents really sound kinda silly and useless...I wonder whether any of them are/will be actually used! I wouldn't mind a banana protective device myself...it would allow me to bring a banana out with me as a snack! :P

And I also found this piece of trivia:
When G.G. Hubbard learned of his future son-in-law's invention, he called it "only a toy." His daughter was engaged to a young man named Alexander Graham Bell.

Heh.

By the way, I just have to rant a bit to someone about this site. It's the Tecnord company (it seems to be Italian) On the main page of the site we see this:


The words and flags are links to another page, so I was like "Great, let's go! Which should I choose, English or French?" BUT!! ALL the links go to the same page. In ITALIAN. -_- (at least, I think it's Italian :P) Thankfully one of the catalogs was in English...