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In Case of Emergency, Please Remove Your Bra
An anonymous reader writes "Caught in a disaster with harmful airborne particles? You'd better hope you're wearing the Emergency Bra. Simply unsnap the bright red bra, separate the cups, and slip it over your head — one cup for you, and one for your friend. Dr. Elena Bodnar won an Ig Nobel Award for the invention last year, an annual tribute to scientific research that on the surface seems goofy but is often surprisingly practical. And now Bodnar has brought the eBra to the public; purchase one online for just $29.95."
Protect your lungs and smell breast sweat...bonus.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
No, your mom's eBra does not count. Or eBras still in the packaging.
Stupid impulse purchases.
Now I have to grow out my man-boobs in order to justify that $29.95 + shipping.
Two points:
1. this is idle
2. this is an ig noble award recipient. IG's are about on the same geeky level as a Klingon opera.
So when the siren sounds, start groping nearby females in search of a gasmask. :)
demo here
Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once
I don't have a problem with this, not at all. Now, to find the nearest fire alarm...
That woman on the picture. How she has that bra on her face. I've been doing that for years!
Wow, this is so much more appealing than my eCup idea for men.
If you're going to take off your top to take off your bra, why nut just do like everyone already does - lift up the front of your top to cover your nose and mouth instead? Quicker, larger filter area, etc.
[scene] Dozens of fully clothed dead men and women lying around the computer room
[Officer 1] What happened here?
[Officer 2] These poor souls died in the gas attack
[Officer 1] What?! Everybody else in the building survived just fine. They used those new-fangled gas mask bras.
[Officer 2, Checking a few bodies] I see several of these women are wearing those bras. Why didn't these people use them?
[Officer 1, Reading the bra's instructions] "Step 1, remove bra"...Step 2..."
[Officer 2] Well, there's the problem right away. This is a Slashdot crowd; no experience in removing bras.
And if she's wearing edible panties, you have an emergency food supply after the disaster hits!
It had already been posted on Slashdot almost a year ago. You must’ve missed it...
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/10/02/1327225/2009-Ig-Nobels-Awarded-For-Gas-Mask-Bras-and-More
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
3. these have been here before... http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/10/02/1327225/2009-Ig-Nobels-Awarded-For-Gas-Mask-Bras-and-More?from=rss
Java gaming nut - http://www.retep.org/ or for the rail http://uktra.in/
I and a nation full of busty women are the only survivors of a terrible disaster. In real life, my wife is busty, so she'd survive. But I'm sure she'd understand the need to to save humanity. What could go wrong?
The world is made by those who show up for the job.
1 girl 2 cup
Wonder Twin Powers Activate!
No way am I clamping a codpiece (mine, or anyone else) on my face. Mr. Happy's been in there.
Why, without your clothes, you're naked, Miss Dudley!
I know that if my plane is going down, my first reaction would be to get as many bras off of as many ladies as possible. Now I can just say I'm doing it for safety.
or else!
"Why are we wearing bras on our heads?"
"It's ceremonial."
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Seems like this would only cause more frequent emergencies.
So now the terrorists will be going for chemical weapons. "Ahmed, if you complete this task you will be rewarded with 72 virgins. And a bunch of pretty infidel women removing their undergarments as a bonus."
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
During the highly-infectious SARS period in 2003, several countries in East Asia were in a state of emergency. N95-rated respirator masks were in extreme short supply.
One bra-manufacturing factory in Taiwan quickly modified its process and churned out masks instead - using the cup and straps as its basic design.
It was a godsend among the Taiwanese who were greatly desperate for protection against the deadly virus, which spreads via tiny droplets of saliva sneezed/coughed into the air.
...about what us males are supposed to do, but then I realised they come in pairs! - I hope that in the event of a gas attack/viral outbreak/collapsed building our female bretheren (er...) will be generous and share their equipment.
In a survey of 100 programmers, 111111 thought that duck-typing was a good idea.
32b to 40c is a "wide variety of sizes"?
So what am I supposed to do, since My wife has DDD's?
~DW
~Donald / Just RTFM
1.) Get to have our lungs protected from harmful dust AND have our women running around "bra-less" Sweet!
2.) Imagine how much more interesting Emergency Prepardness drills will be now.
There is also some noise of a "counterpart device for men" in the works
My balls aren't that big.
Sales of teargas has unexpectedly tripled, leaving the industry to scramble to meet demand...
that false alarms will become more frequent :-)
This has fetish written all over it. Well, until some big fat sweaty lady in the automotive section at Wal-Mart saves your life with her DD bra! Wait a minute...two fetishes in one!
I hit the job boards every day. In an area of several million, do you know how many new IT jobs were posted in the last week (as opposed to reposting the same job with ridiculous requirements)? Zero. None. Nada. Zip. Null. Locally, IT lost way more than 10% of it's jobs so far this year, and the trend is expected to continue.
How bad is it? The place I used to work at has laid off 2/3 of their staff, and all but one programmer. I was too expensive to keep on the books, unless I wanted to take both a 50% pay cut and a 50% cut in hours (that's a 75% pay cut) on top of a previous 20% cut (gross total cut of 80%). They had to cut back because the previous team screwed up so bad, that by the time I had fixed most of their mistakes (at least the ones that I was *allowed* to fix - the design is still crap, but at least it works), they were in trouble, having lost some of their biggest clients - including some household names.
I also have ads out looking for work. All that comes back is people who don't know what they want, and don't want to explain what they want because I can then "steal their great idea", or scams along the lines of "I'll give you a share of the revenues" or equally unrealistic garbage. Why do you think I need to relocate? Why do you think that half my family already has? Or that this month another friend left the country to work elsewhere?
So why shouldn't I put some of my time into coming up with a way to make things simpler? Who knows, it might lead to something better elsewhere in the world. And why not be honest about the underlying causes of the 3-decades-long under-performance of the local economy cause by successive governments chasing away business by discriminating against the English minority? Ignoring it won't make it go away - it just makes it easier to think "Oh, it's like this everywhere." It's not.
There ... I feel better already :-)
Now I can finally patent my idea for flame-proof underwear.
I'll be not only safe but stylish with my woman's bra on my face and her matching panties on my head.
"A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book
Just ignore the yellow & brown stains, and save your life!!!!
Be seeing you...