In my ever continuing search for inventions proving once and for all that we are on our way to eternal damnation for wasting out time here on earth, I’ve stumbled on a few new items.

First of the rank is the Smile Helmet. Basically it is “...a helmet for people in jobs which demand an unusual amount of smiling, such as air-stewards, receptionists and politicians. A sensor in the front of the helmet detects anybody within a two metre range, at which point the mouth is pulled into a broad grin by a small servo motor and some concealed fishing wire.”

The smile helmet - taking the effort out of smiling

I think this is a great invention. If the grin was just a little bit wider, he’d decapitate himself! Great stuff! I personally would love to have one as I deal with customers all the time and my forced smiles look pretty much like the one pictured above anyway.

The second item belongs in the ever increasing number of USB devices that has no apparent use what so ever (like a USB keyboard, USB mouse and other peculiar items). It is a well known fact that the cubicle war to have the coolest/silliest USB device attached to your computer is only out shadowed by US military spending, and to keep the cubicle warriors down in your work vicinity, you can’t do better than the USB powered hamster wheel – with a hamster in it that runs as fast as you type.

USB Powered Hamster wheel

That’s it for this time…

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