Tonight's Topic: April Fools -- Or Not?
ANSWERS = [ C - A - C ]
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So, have you been fooled -- today?
Regardless, can you pick the correct answers -- foolish or not -- for our 3 questions below?
Please choose your answers from any of the 3 (reuseable) answers of "A", "B", or "C" (if applicable!) for each of the following question.
Ok, make your Happy Face, slip on your Tap Shoes, and get ready for some foolishness!
++ April Fools -- Or Not? ++
Question #1: What did Ukrainian physician Elena Bodnar invent in 2009 that was inspired by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster?
A. A sub-microscopic radiation sensor -- NanoRadScan -- implanted in a person's thigh to give continuous monitoring of actual radiation exposure, or
B. An olive-oil based decontamination soap to clean up small spills of radiation materials in laboratories, or
C. An Emergency Bra, which can be quickly and easily converted into two face masks without removing any clothes.
REFERENCE: U.S. patent # 7255627, granted August 14, 2007 for a “Garment Device Convertible to One or More Facemasks.”
Check out the fashionable Emergency Bra photos here!
A. True, or
B. False.
The Ig Nobel Prizes 2014 BIOLOGY PRIZE: [CZECH REPUBLIC, GERMANY, ZAMBIA]: Vlastimil Hart, Petra Nováková, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Sabine Begall, Vladimír Hanzal, Miloš Ježek, Tomáš Kušta, Veronika Němcová, Jana Adámková, Kateřina Benediktová, Jaroslav Červený and Hynek Burda,
for carefully documenting that when dogs defecate and urinate, they
prefer to align their body axis with Earth's north-south geomagnetic
field lines.
REFERENCE: "Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field," Vlastimil Hart, Petra Nováková, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Sabine Begall, Vladimír Hanzal, Miloš Ježek, Tomáš Kušta, Veronika Němcová, Jana Adámková, Kateřina Benediktová, Jaroslav Červený and Hynek Burda, Frontiers in Zoology, 10:80, 27 December 27, 2013.
Question
#3: Recently, a nearby inventor patented an Animal
deterrent and
training device (CounterWatch™ Sentry) to keep cats off your counters, table tops, furniture,
curtains, etc. Ten years earlier, a Welsh inventor created the Mosquito
-- an electromagnetic repellent device. What does it repel?REFERENCE: "Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth's magnetic field," Vlastimil Hart, Petra Nováková, Erich Pascal Malkemper, Sabine Begall, Vladimír Hanzal, Miloš Ježek, Tomáš Kušta, Veronika Němcová, Jana Adámková, Kateřina Benediktová, Jaroslav Červený and Hynek Burda, Frontiers in Zoology, 10:80, 27 December 27, 2013.
A. Biting insects like mosquitoes, midges, flies, etc, or
B. Rats, mice, and other rodents, or
C. Noisy, loitering, and rowdy kids and teenagers.
‘Animal deterrent and training device and method thereof’ (new patent)
Trouble with cats on your counters, table tops, furniture, curtains, floor areas – or maybe “hanging out at your entry door”? Inventor Shawn Tait of Issaquah, WA, US, noted that “they just don’t like being squirted or misted with simple inexpensive water” and has just received a 2016 US patent for his ‘Animal deterrent and training device and method thereof,
The device, marketed as CounterWatch™ Sentry, is already on sale. Details can be found here.
The Ig Nobel Prizes 2006 PEACE: Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant -- a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; and for later using that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but probably not to their teachers.
REFERENCE: http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk
The Mosquito Anti-Loitering device is an anti-loitering device that works as the perfect wireless security alarm system if you have problems with teenagers loitering near your property or business.
Trouble with cats on your counters, table tops, furniture, curtains, floor areas – or maybe “hanging out at your entry door”? Inventor Shawn Tait of Issaquah, WA, US, noted that “they just don’t like being squirted or misted with simple inexpensive water” and has just received a 2016 US patent for his ‘Animal deterrent and training device and method thereof,
The device, marketed as CounterWatch™ Sentry, is already on sale. Details can be found here.
The Ig Nobel Prizes 2006 PEACE: Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant -- a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; and for later using that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but probably not to their teachers.
REFERENCE: http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk
The Mosquito Anti-Loitering device is an anti-loitering device that works as the perfect wireless security alarm system if you have problems with teenagers loitering near your property or business.
[SOURCE: All questions and ANSWERS derived from Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize]
NOTE: The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, and then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people's interest in science, medicine, and technology.
VIDEOS (EMERGENCY BRA):
The 19th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony - YouTube
The emergency bra-mask - YouTube
=================The 19th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony - YouTube
The emergency bra-mask - YouTube
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