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New Inventions Featured at the BIS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the build-a-better...-oh,-okay dept.

kjh1 writes "BBC News is running an article covering the British Invention Show (BIS) and some of the (quite useful) inventions that will be on display there this year."

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  1. A fun entry? by Pan+T.+Hose · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "It's a fun entry," says Professor Wolff of Daniel Doheny's Mousemaster, a trap able to hold "12 to 15 mice in one go".

    Call me old-fashioned, but how exactly cruelty towards animals can be considered fun?

    --
    Sincerely,
    Pan Tarhei Hosé, PhD.
    "Homo sum et cogito ergo odi profanum vulgus et libido."
    1. Re:A fun entry? by DogsBollocks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      It's fun because if you leave them all in the bucket long enough, they will eat each other.. :-)

  2. Lisa Needs Braces by pipingguy · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    Were there any innovative tooth-whitening/straightening products?

    Chuckie: [as a prank, drops a pencil into the crack of Homer's butt]
    Carla: Bull's-eye!
    Homer: Thanks a lot, Carl. Now I lost my train of throught.
    Lenny's voice: Dental plan!

    [Simpsons references never go out of style...]

  3. Cripes! by identity0 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Huzzah! With this new "Tooth-Brush" technology, we Subjects of The Queen can now polish those hard to reach places in our teapots after teatime! Marvelous!

    Bloody queer name for a teapot brush, but whatever works, eh mate?

    (Runs and hides from enraged Englishmen)