Someone taking the time to draw a dog checking his watch with the exact same expression on their face as someone who can't believe it's only 10:45am at their job is amazing.
The pet time piece thing is something that's already running in the back of my mind, cause i know that i'll spend a fraction of my life with them, but that comparatively small fraction of my life is every moment of theirs, meaning that a tiny piece of my time is a larger portion of theirs, so any time they want attention, i give it to them, cause they have less time than i do, so i should share it with them whenever i can. Reminds me of a concept folks kick around online every once in a while, about how in the eyes of our pets and the urban animals we share our cities with, we are like elves, immortal beings who defy the seasons, living for many generations of their kind, in homes that are cool on the hottest days and warm on the coldest nights, with otherworldly food unlike anything they can find in the environment, and strange rules they cannot comprehend or hope to follow.
When I worked in patents, part of our welcome session was a presentation of patent designs, and we had to guess what they were for. A bath ladder for spiders, a one-armed high fiving machine, a leash for an invisible pet and an automatic rotating ice-cream cone were among some of the standouts.
My family went to a Virginia Beach vacation when I was 9 or so, wayyyy back in 1970. One of the souvenir shops had leashes for invisible pets. I LOVED it....walked my invisible dog around with me for months.
The Pee-Target is quite common here in germany. Mainly in Pissoirs in Restaurants, Clubs, etc. so men try to hit the target and not beside the bowl. And as far as I know, it is quite effective
Elias Howe was the inventor of one of the first lock stitch sewing machines that successfully lodged a patent. Singer and Howe got into a very public fight, using newspaper ads to slander each other but ultimately Singer lost the patent lawsuit to Howe and had to pay him out plus ongoing royalties as did every other manufacturer of lock stitch sewing machines. Singer was the man that marketed the lock stitch sewing machine the best so much so that his name became synonymous with it and thus people started to believe he was the inventor. But earlier then that in 1830 the first ever fully functioning mechanical sewing machine was manufactured in Paris by Barthelemy Thimonnier to sew uniforms for the military but the French tailors found out and burned down the building that housed them in a riot. But even before that in 1790 the first ever patent for a sewing machine was granted to Englishman Thomas Saint. The invention of th sewing machine and it's progression throughout history is really every interesting.
The thing that gets me about the anti-eating mask was that this was after Silence of the Lambs came out. How can anybody look at that and not see Hannibal Lecter's no-biting mask?
It's less grotesque than Hannibal's mask, but yeah. I seem to recall reading somewhere that the prop guys went out of their way to create a mask that looked terrifying. If so, they succeeded.
@joescott. The padded headrests for the urinals are actually used quite a bit in bar bathrooms and it's not so much for tired people as it is for drunk ones it keeps them in the right spot so that they end up peeing IN the urinal. I don't know if that's the original intention of the device but it works very well for bar patrons.
Fun fact about the toilet toy, there was later a trend in bars to apply stickers of flies to the urinals near the drain. Because the theory was, drunk men like to piss on flies. And not only did this turn out to be true, but bars that did this saw a marked increase in the accuracy of their customers and cleaner urinal areas. Then they asked the question, "what if it's not just drunk men, but all men". So they tested it in more public restrooms and found success. So, if you own a place with a public bathroom and you want cleaner urinals. Buy fly stickers. They are a surprisingly cheap and effective investment.
As for food journaling , it does kinda help. I had to do it in preparation for gastric sleeve. As well as calculate calories and carbs for each item. Seeing the multiple things you write down on a daily basis does this kind of psychological thing where your brain goes, "Oh crap, I ate all of that?" as well as, "Oh wow, I did really good today, yay me!". I'm sure not everyone has the same reaction, but it never hurts to give it a try if you're trying to shed a little weight.
I used to food journal but instead of a list, I actually had a small art pad and drew simple pictures of all my food, color pencils and all. Yes, it does work to a point. In my case the drawing and coloring was enough of a distraction to sometimes keep me from eating something else.
I used My Fitness Pal years ago to track my intake & it provided me with a valuable education. I was shocked by the calories in what I had perceived as insignificant things, like little snacks or taste testing while cooking. Before tracking I didn't consider them, despite the fact I was consuming the food. Until I took the time to enter everything I ate/drank (alcohol will really rack them up) into the app I didn't fully grasp the impact of my habits & choices on my daily caloric intake. Thankfully, it taught me to maintain my weight. I recommend tracking, even if you're happy w/your weight, as it can help identify necessary changes for a healthier diet by breaking down calorie sources, such as fats, carbs, & nutrients. It does take time, especially with weighing/portioning, but it's worth it.
@@Lux_Lethal It can definitely be helpful for a lot of people - but it can also be super dangerous and harmful. I used to work with a woman who used that exact same app to a very concerning degree - she was not overweight and I would categorize her relationship with food as unhealthy at best (disordered at worst, but I'm obviously not qualified to diagnose). It really just depends on the person and the way they view food/their body/etc - I would avoid suggesting that kind of meticulous measurement as a good thing for everyone...
The worst part of learning about calories is the disproportionate relationship between calories in food and calories burned in exercises. You can run a triathlon and then get all those calories back with, like, a muffin 😅
7:40. There could be two purposes. In psychiatric medicine, before the creation of tranquilizers, calming down agitated patients was a task. Besides of all manner of restrictions, hot baths were used. I remember a scene in the film The Nun's Story (1956, starring Audrey Hepburn) in which the leading character, a Belgian nun/nurse was taught about the installations in a psychiatric ward - including a steaming room with women screaming inside the covered bathtubs. If you google "psychiatry hot baths," you'll find they are still recommended, and also will find an article titled "Hydrotherapy in London Asylum" with a good explanation of the method. The other reason may be hydrotherapy as itself. Before antibiotics and other effective treatments, taking baths was one of the most widespread treatments for a bunch of diseases. Cities with natural springs became famous as health centers; books were written about cold showers curing all manner of diseases. My grandad had one postulating sitting baths in cold water as a cure for everything - including leprosy. Unforgettable engraved illustrations.
@@emaarredondo-librarian Agreed with the yikes. I sort of remember having seen in a book recipes for combining different minerals you could add to your bathtub, so you could have a mineral water bath saving you the travel to some faraway place. Different kinds of mineral waters were supposedly useful for different kinds of diseases. Maybe the idea of having a bathtub with moving water was meant to imitate the sea. Bathing in the sea was also considered medicinal. You just added salt, maybe some iodine... Librarian here. I have seen a bunch of very strange books. 😂
5:12 "Zephyr yarn is an American brand name for Berlin wool or German wool, used from the nineteenth century onwards. The vivid colours and soft, light texture ('light as a breeze', hence the name zephyr) made the wool very popular in Europe and North America and aided in the popularity of Berlin wool work."
I've understood zephyr to mean a breeze and google confirmed. So I thought maybe "balls of zephyr" is a reference to ballons or some type of hollow ball. Your explanation seems more plausible.
My solution for shutting off my alarm in my sleep was to just get an app that makes you solve math problems to turn it off. Works perfectly. By the time I'm coherent enough to solve the math problems, I'm up and awake.
I bought my husband an alarm clock, where he needs to shoot a target that rises up wit a toy gun (infrared?). He uses it on days he needs to be work early, seems to do the trick. Before it was me, trying to coax him out of the bed.
I've done those in my sleep sadly (or woken up just enough and don't remember it later). Then again, I sleep with a ventilator and oxygen, and I've been known to take THOSE off while sleeping too - which is effort when you have a bunch of straps, tubes, collars, tape, earplugs, eyemasks and all sorts holding everything in place.
the problem isn't shutting off the alarm, the problem most people have... that even at max volume... the sound of the alarm does not wake one from slumbers deep. Wont stir long enough to solve any problems of math.
When I was a kid (mid 80s) I made a program on my TI-99 (old ass computer, a bit like a commodore 64) which would go off flashing the screen and making hellish noises until I typed in a passphrase. Worked great for a few days, then I woke up late and found that I had just walked across the room and unplugged it without actually waking up.
@@JustAnotherBuckyLoverI don't have a breathing apparatus but I've absolutely solved 6 math problems then fell back asleep. I've also gotten up, climbed over stuff, scanned a QR code then went back to bed. I think the math ones are slightly more effective but the real key is getting to bed and falling asleep earlier which is something I'm terrible at.
i don't need a watch to make me appreciate ever second i get to snuggle with my dog....she is my daughter, my baby, my angel so i appreciate every moment i get with her
That human washing machine... Imagine how many of them would have been sold if they were smaller and specifically made for use with children? I shudder to think of the burns, strangulations, and other injuries if not outright deaths it could have caused.
Cat on a string wouldn't work. I had an owl statue in my yard, eventually the birds just ignored it, well, that was until a real owl showed up in my yard. Real owl was way more effective.
And all the critters were ignoring the the owl. That would be a difficult realization. Like Pink Floyd animals “bleating and babbling they fell on his neck with a scream”.
I have a pair of red-shouldered hawks that regularly cruise over my yard and occasionally land in my pecan tree, but the other birds don't seem to care.
Man, I worked in the service industry for 15 years as a cook, and if anybody ever told me to put a locking face mask on I would have punched them in the face. Working in a restaurant is already a miserable existence, like we need anything to make it worse
Cat on a string reminded me of an invention I've seen. A type of scarecrow, it consists of several flag poles in and around a garden. Attached via a string is a very realistic bird kite. Even a small breeze sends the birds (Hawks, Eagles and Falcons are the preferred profiles) fly like the wind (literally :). It does a pretty good job of keeping rodents down when your trained cats go on strike ;). Great video. Thanks
Oh boy! I was a baker & fryer. We didn't sell glazed long John's, but when I'd fry them up, I'd "accidentally" drop them into the bowl of glaze... "Oops! well, I guess I'll have to eat it"😂 those were good days.
Oh yeah, 14 years as a baker in a supermarket....oops, so many leftover little bits of cookies, well they smell good so I'll help myself. Totally didn't break them beforehand, nope.
@MrGoesBoom 😆 🤣 Right! Did you use bun smear on the cinnamon rolls when making pecan rolls? If you did, did it absolutely stink! Or did you not mind it? I can't eat a pecan roll because I smell it & NOPE! 🤢
I spent most of my childhood playing and entertaining myself so I developed the habit of talking out loud, a lot; all day long, even in public. I can pat my own back, tyvm. 😂
What we have at work is a hand printed on a piece of paper taped to the wall. If you need a pat on the back for good work, you back into it 2 or 3 times.
I made the mistake of telling a kid in HS who worked at Red Lobster how much I loved Cheddar Bay Biscuits, seeing as the next day he showed up to 6th hour with an entire garbage bag of them.
Funny thing about that pee target. A lot of parenting sources say to use Cheerios(TM) or similarly shaped cereal for targets. Don' need to wad up toilet paper. Just a few of those floaty, oat loops in the water, and Jr's got an hour of water gun entertainment.
@@bcase5328 When I was in high school in the 80's the local bowling alley had urinal cake covers with Jane Fonda's face on them, mouth open and read "I'm not fonda Jane."
There's a meme I reposted on my FB and IG that accurately points out there needs to be an alarm clock that sounds like a pet starting to puke, as nothing gets one out of bed faster...
As my father got older, he benefited from the use of a bar above the toilet which he could lean on with one hand while peeing. It allowed him to remain independent a lot longer, I’m glad to say. So I would suggest it’s not just the inebriated who benefit from having something to help steady them.
6:41 sounds like someone who's never found out: 1: did you know a slight forward lean has been shown to make for an easier flow when urinating, helps more of the leftovers drain out, has been shown to prevent urinary infections & overall bladder health 2: it's actually kinda chill to just lean like that. ALSO: if you don't need a bit of help to stay up when peeing, you just haven't drunk enough yet! xD
Dental dams (A.K.A. the mouth condom) are an actual thing and fairly common for certain groups, a one night stand between two women for instance is better served by one of these than a 'normal' condom that uh.. doesn't really have anywhere to wrap around.
So there is something to the face chastity belt and what you were saying about obstacles. My roommate and I decided that we would cook everything from scratch. Which means if I want potatoes au gratin, or mac and cheese, or even Ramen, I don't make the pastas myself but I have to make the cheese sauces and assemble all the spices, and especially with potatoes au gratin which I would argue is one of the worst offenders LOL. That's like a hour-and-a-half prep time
The face smash alarm click. Yeah, if I were to suggest gifting such a thing to my wife...I'd be looking at a permanent, one way trip to the doghouse. Or worse.
Please, please, do the next video explaining things with the Pepe da Silva background! You have the same voice , intonation and accent, as Charlie from it's always sunny in Philadelphia. It will be hilarious !
Bread lol. Idk if it's gonna be on here cause we don't often think as an invention, but bread is def one of the weirdest inventions in history. We think it was one of those accidental inventions. Like some yeast randomly got into someone's wheat porridge and they heated it up. It was probably really bad and doughy but maybe they thought they were on to something lol
Wild yeast exists in the air and gets on literally everything. That's how sourdough starter can simply be made with flour+water+time+scheduled feeding. Bread experts say not to use bleached flour, but add a week or two of babying before you're ready to bake and it still works. So some ancient person stumbling onto the fermentation process while trying to make naan or some other kind of flat bread is probably exactly how it happened.
same thing with beer, probably. "Hey my malt went bad, you know what let's try to *drink* it anyway. Oh wait is making me drunk? F*** yeah, I'm a genius"
I used to do IT stuff for a Biological and Agricultural Engineering department at an university. Basically, how to engineer farm equipment. Apparently a common problem on large farms is... disposing of animal carcasses. So most of the professors had multiple patents for large machines for doing just that. All of the patent drawings resembled something from the Saw movies. Fixing someone's computer while staring at patent plaques describing "Apparatus for pulverizing animal carcasses" is a tiny bit unsettling.
Your dog must be freaking enormous, most would take 3-8 times as many. Also don't forget the extra legs. ( to only take twice as many your dog would be 30+ inches tall )( Great Danish )
You have to think more deeply about the implications of some of these inventions... the scare cat for example wouldnt fly around, because of the way a metal spring works. It would actually look like a cat that hops all over the place, like a cat that catches birds. This is surprisingly well thought out and deserves a higher rank, because other then scarecrows, this one might actually work.
Aren't chefs supposed to taste food, for quality control? BTW, I've seen the kissing shield before. I once bought a game (called "What the What?") that basically consisted of pictures of weird inventions and you either tried to guess it (if you were playing it for the first time) or tried to come up with the funniest alternative explanation for what it was. There were some seriously messed up inventions shown in that game.
As a chef who was lucky enough to work during covid, masks did stop you from tasting as often. Also led to some dehydration as you didn't drink as much during long shifts in a hot kitchen.
That first one kills me!! Looks like just using the thing would result in one then needing a device that massages one's shoulder -- ah-ha! A self-feeding market!!
Like the Washing Bath invention (minus the neck strangler) in stead of using a washing machine, think how much laundry one could wash compared to a WM.
The "anti-eating face mask" I imagine has a MUUUCH larger market with the S&M crowd. As does the "mouth condom." "Rubber lips are immune to your charm" references here.
The flying cat idea isn't that bad... The field across the street has a pole with a red kite (the small raptor bird) on it. I really do think it works. And it looks kinda cool too.
Cat on a string: my cats generally forget How To Cat; while one does make moves against mourning doves, all the cats literally ignore the yard squirrels that have tamed themselves, noting the humans carry almonds for them so they'll come right up to be given a nut (even hopping onto pants legs and shoulders).
What would be great is a vacuum tube food delivery system like a bank's drive in check tube. Only bigger, about 12 inches in diameter, connected to a local food hub to service about a dozen neighborhoods in a few minutes and you don't have to leave the house, just turn a vacuum on until a bell rings and your little tube delivery smashes into the stop block and you send a signal back and when it is unloaded you open your vent and it get's sucked back to the store. The switch lines are kind of problematic as you would need a separate tube for each resident, like maybe a hundred and fifty tubes. This would also work for laundry in an apartment building or hotel.
Toilet training my grandson, we floated cheerios for him to aim at. The standing pee was several steps into his actual housetraining. The bathtub application was for psychiatric hospitals.
5:46 Urinal headrests definitely exist. I remember a Newfoundland actor going on and on about how Newfoundland had headrests on their urinals so that when you were drunk you could just "lean in there" and him lamenting the fact that Ontario bathrooms didn't seem to have them.
Also, if I'm remembering this correctly this would have been about 2 years after that patent was granted. So perhaps Newfoundland was an early market? I'm curious if they still have them today.
Zephyr is a thin tough paperlike material made from the wall of a cow or goats intestine, used for covering the bellows in singing bird snuff boxes etc. Zephyr being the Greek word for air .
My Godson was taught to aim properly by us putting a few Cheerios (cereal), or I suppose one could use Fruit Loops for variety. If he actually hit one, he got a star on his calendar .that hung by the toilet. If he sank one or more, he got to pick a cheap toy wrapped in newspaper (so he didn’t know what it was, and kept in a cloth bag (hung where he couldn’t reach. He also got a special sticker in his calendar for that day. The Cheerios were cheap, biodegradable, and couldn’t break down. We put 3 of them in the bowl each time he needed to go, so he had the chance of up to 3 stars, a toy, and a special sticker every time. The side benefits were that he drank more water, and he never had another accident (because he really wanted those stars, stickers, and toys. It worked a treat…we even had little ziplock bags with cheerios for when we were away from home for a movie, or shopping etc. once we didn’t need them for toilet, we used the same system for his household chores, and dressing himself, personal hygiene was all covered by the stars and stickers…until he became old enough to prefer money.⭐️⭐️⭐️🧚🏼🖤🇨🇦
I 100% love the urinal headrest. I just wanna relax when standing at the urinal and often lean up against the divider, but leaning forward and just putting my head on the wall seems unsanitary and cold, but a pad would be cool. Especially if it had sanitizing gel next to it haha
Having just returned from a six-week visit to South Korea, I noticed while visiting there were a number of public urinals that had a sticker of a fly at an appropriate location in the urinal. Something to aim at
nothing will ever replace the tactical and strategic genius of that tried and true training method masterpiece called " sink the cheerios". oh, and btw, take a gander at the "turd twister".
The ball boat sounds kinda cool as a fantasy vehicle. Like a blimp but for water. Maybe to balance it they could have used a hotdog shape instead of a ball shape? But then again, it would still be at risk of tipping forward or back.
the toilet toy exists for drunk adults as well. A little sticker of a fly (designed to withstand the liquid and the detergents) placed on the inside of the "bowl" / urinal. that way drunk people are more likely to aim rather than mess up the bathroom...
10/10 would cry at how life is 5-7x shorter for my kitten than me again. That watch would be a good teaching tool for trying to get people empathetic to other species. Also neat is that elephants have a similar lifespan to humans, so an "elephant" watch would be a regular one. Helps you appreciate how long-lived some species can be!
I have a patent pending on the mechanism that makes us human. We are 99% genetically the same as the great apes. Humanity arises from the Microbiome. Apes have a few dozen gut bacterial species, whereas humans can have a thousand species organized into the human Microbiome. These become small chemical factories producing the neurotransmitters, etc.that make us human. For example, speech involves 9 species of bacteria. Some birds have all of these but apes do not. When all of this breaks down ...we get aging. Been trying to patent THAT ...since 2012.
In the past few weeks, I saw a video on how animals experience the passage of time. Some perceive time more slowly, like dogs. To them, we move in slow motion.
During that time of the pandemic, I was at work in the cafeteria at lunchtime and saw one of my coworkers try to put some food in his mouth while he still had a mask on. He caught himself then started laughing! It was just what we all thought could happen.
In the 90s Schiphol (one of Europe's largest airports) got urinals with a fly inside the bowl. IIRC it was not just a sticker, it was actually in the porcelain mold, and placed in the optimal position to minimize splash-back. Yeah, imagine trying to get a grant for that research project. Reportedly it reduced 'spillage' by some 80%.
I have seen some toilets where they will have a bug painted onto the bowl, so that kids have something to aim at. It has the benefit that nobody has to touch it and it is part of the bowl, so no extra splash.
Someone taking the time to draw a dog checking his watch with the exact same expression on their face as someone who can't believe it's only 10:45am at their job is amazing.
The pet time piece thing is something that's already running in the back of my mind, cause i know that i'll spend a fraction of my life with them, but that comparatively small fraction of my life is every moment of theirs, meaning that a tiny piece of my time is a larger portion of theirs, so any time they want attention, i give it to them, cause they have less time than i do, so i should share it with them whenever i can.
Reminds me of a concept folks kick around online every once in a while, about how in the eyes of our pets and the urban animals we share our cities with, we are like elves, immortal beings who defy the seasons, living for many generations of their kind, in homes that are cool on the hottest days and warm on the coldest nights, with otherworldly food unlike anything they can find in the environment, and strange rules they cannot comprehend or hope to follow.
Shout out to @Simone Giertz for that clip of the alarm whacking her in the face. One of the first videos by the now legendary RUclipsr.
Let's not forget her "proud parent machine" that its functionality is the same with the first machine Joe presents in this video.
@@antonl21 I thought that was familiar! Yes, Simone independently invented 2 of these.
@@antonl21 That was my first thought!
Did she also make one that pats her on the back because she missed her parents?
@@antonl21doesn't Adam Savage provide the voice clips for this one?
There was the perfect opportunity to say Singer was sewing/sowing his wild oats
You had me in stitches there!
Ooooooh... that is sooo bad.... as all good puns should be. 😂😂 Absolutely Brilliant.👍😊
When I worked in patents, part of our welcome session was a presentation of patent designs, and we had to guess what they were for. A bath ladder for spiders, a one-armed high fiving machine, a leash for an invisible pet and an automatic rotating ice-cream cone were among some of the standouts.
My family went to a Virginia Beach vacation when I was 9 or so, wayyyy back in 1970. One of the souvenir shops had leashes for invisible pets. I LOVED it....walked my invisible dog around with me for months.
The invisible dog leash had moderate success in the comedy circles at one point, didn't it?
i got mine at disneyland
The Pee-Target is quite common here in germany. Mainly in Pissoirs in Restaurants, Clubs, etc. so men try to hit the target and not beside the bowl.
And as far as I know, it is quite effective
Elias Howe was the inventor of one of the first lock stitch sewing machines that successfully lodged a patent. Singer and Howe got into a very public fight, using newspaper ads to slander each other but ultimately Singer lost the patent lawsuit to Howe and had to pay him out plus ongoing royalties as did every other manufacturer of lock stitch sewing machines. Singer was the man that marketed the lock stitch sewing machine the best so much so that his name became synonymous with it and thus people started to believe he was the inventor. But earlier then that in 1830 the first ever fully functioning mechanical sewing machine was manufactured in Paris by Barthelemy Thimonnier to sew uniforms for the military but the French tailors found out and burned down the building that housed them in a riot. But even before that in 1790 the first ever patent for a sewing machine was granted to Englishman Thomas Saint. The invention of th sewing machine and it's progression throughout history is really every interesting.
Cool!
Thank you for stitching all that together. It was... seamless.
you should write that to BlueJay, would make a really fun BlueJay Video :3
Kinda like how some uneducated people think Henry Ford invented the internal combustion engine vehicle, when it was Benz like 25 years earlier.
Thank you for writing that all out so I didn't have to. I was yelling that at the video. 😂
The thing that gets me about the anti-eating mask was that this was after Silence of the Lambs came out. How can anybody look at that and not see Hannibal Lecter's no-biting mask?
That's where they probably got the idea 😉
Or Garland Green in Con Air
Those masks long predate SOTL... (Lector's, not the anti-snack mask)
It's less grotesque than Hannibal's mask, but yeah. I seem to recall reading somewhere that the prop guys went out of their way to create a mask that looked terrifying. If so, they succeeded.
"Yo that's Garland Green man!"
@joescott. The padded headrests for the urinals are actually used quite a bit in bar bathrooms and it's not so much for tired people as it is for drunk ones it keeps them in the right spot so that they end up peeing IN the urinal.
I don't know if that's the original intention of the device but it works very well for bar patrons.
I definitely feel like the rocking chair with bellow/air tube was a great idea for its day. I would have put that in B or A tier.
The flying cat might protect crops just because it made crows laugh so hard they'd fly into solid objects or the ground.
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Ahah! Reverse psychology -- that inventor is inadvertently clever! And perhaps long dead. My condolences.
8:03 I first read it as “Anti-face-eating mask” and immediately jumped to Anthony Hopkins’ facial appliance in Silence of the Lambs.
Fun fact about the toilet toy, there was later a trend in bars to apply stickers of flies to the urinals near the drain. Because the theory was, drunk men like to piss on flies. And not only did this turn out to be true, but bars that did this saw a marked increase in the accuracy of their customers and cleaner urinal areas. Then they asked the question, "what if it's not just drunk men, but all men". So they tested it in more public restrooms and found success. So, if you own a place with a public bathroom and you want cleaner urinals. Buy fly stickers. They are a surprisingly cheap and effective investment.
As for food journaling , it does kinda help. I had to do it in preparation for gastric sleeve. As well as calculate calories and carbs for each item. Seeing the multiple things you write down on a daily basis does this kind of psychological thing where your brain goes, "Oh crap, I ate all of that?" as well as, "Oh wow, I did really good today, yay me!". I'm sure not everyone has the same reaction, but it never hurts to give it a try if you're trying to shed a little weight.
Wouldn't it be great to have an invention that lets you pat yourself on the back on the yay me days?! 😉
I used to food journal but instead of a list, I actually had a small art pad and drew simple pictures of all my food, color pencils and all. Yes, it does work to a point. In my case the drawing and coloring was enough of a distraction to sometimes keep me from eating something else.
I used My Fitness Pal years ago to track my intake & it provided me with a valuable education. I was shocked by the calories in what I had perceived as insignificant things, like little snacks or taste testing while cooking. Before tracking I didn't consider them, despite the fact I was consuming the food. Until I took the time to enter everything I ate/drank (alcohol will really rack them up) into the app I didn't fully grasp the impact of my habits & choices on my daily caloric intake. Thankfully, it taught me to maintain my weight. I recommend tracking, even if you're happy w/your weight, as it can help identify necessary changes for a healthier diet by breaking down calorie sources, such as fats, carbs, & nutrients. It does take time, especially with weighing/portioning, but it's worth it.
@@Lux_Lethal It can definitely be helpful for a lot of people - but it can also be super dangerous and harmful. I used to work with a woman who used that exact same app to a very concerning degree - she was not overweight and I would categorize her relationship with food as unhealthy at best (disordered at worst, but I'm obviously not qualified to diagnose). It really just depends on the person and the way they view food/their body/etc - I would avoid suggesting that kind of meticulous measurement as a good thing for everyone...
The worst part of learning about calories is the disproportionate relationship between calories in food and calories burned in exercises. You can run a triathlon and then get all those calories back with, like, a muffin 😅
Okay but this needs to be a series! Great job on the threat last time - now we need like 50 more. These are so fascinating!
Pat on the back would look fun with a giant foam hand.
Bellows chair is actually a good idea if made well.
Simone Giertz made on of these years ago, much better than the patent version 😉
@@dahn57 There's RUclips video ideas in a bunch of these weird patents.
7:40. There could be two purposes. In psychiatric medicine, before the creation of tranquilizers, calming down agitated patients was a task. Besides of all manner of restrictions, hot baths were used. I remember a scene in the film The Nun's Story (1956, starring Audrey Hepburn) in which the leading character, a Belgian nun/nurse was taught about the installations in a psychiatric ward - including a steaming room with women screaming inside the covered bathtubs.
If you google "psychiatry hot baths," you'll find they are still recommended, and also will find an article titled "Hydrotherapy in London Asylum" with a good explanation of the method.
The other reason may be hydrotherapy as itself. Before antibiotics and other effective treatments, taking baths was one of the most widespread treatments for a bunch of diseases. Cities with natural springs became famous as health centers; books were written about cold showers curing all manner of diseases. My grandad had one postulating sitting baths in cold water as a cure for everything - including leprosy. Unforgettable engraved illustrations.
So, it would be useful in mental asylums or for people who cannot go to a resort to bathe in special waters?
Still yikes.
@@emaarredondo-librarian Agreed with the yikes. I sort of remember having seen in a book recipes for combining different minerals you could add to your bathtub, so you could have a mineral water bath saving you the travel to some faraway place. Different kinds of mineral waters were supposedly useful for different kinds of diseases. Maybe the idea of having a bathtub with moving water was meant to imitate the sea. Bathing in the sea was also considered medicinal. You just added salt, maybe some iodine...
Librarian here. I have seen a bunch of very strange books. 😂
@@MariaMartinez-researcher Adding salt to a Jacuzzi and making it the sea. Interesting idea. 😁
5:12 "Zephyr yarn is an American brand name for Berlin wool or German wool, used from the nineteenth century onwards. The vivid colours and soft, light texture ('light as a breeze', hence the name zephyr) made the wool very popular in Europe and North America and aided in the popularity of Berlin wool work."
Thank you for providing that information. The wool sounds lovely.
I've understood zephyr to mean a breeze and google confirmed. So I thought maybe "balls of zephyr" is a reference to ballons or some type of hollow ball. Your explanation seems more plausible.
You make the best threats, Joe. Thanks for peculiar patents part 2.
he called it a threat and i immediately was like "a part2? dont threaten me with a good time!" haha
My solution for shutting off my alarm in my sleep was to just get an app that makes you solve math problems to turn it off. Works perfectly. By the time I'm coherent enough to solve the math problems, I'm up and awake.
I bought my husband an alarm clock, where he needs to shoot a target that rises up wit a toy gun (infrared?). He uses it on days he needs to be work early, seems to do the trick. Before it was me, trying to coax him out of the bed.
I've done those in my sleep sadly (or woken up just enough and don't remember it later). Then again, I sleep with a ventilator and oxygen, and I've been known to take THOSE off while sleeping too - which is effort when you have a bunch of straps, tubes, collars, tape, earplugs, eyemasks and all sorts holding everything in place.
the problem isn't shutting off the alarm, the problem most people have... that even at max volume... the sound of the alarm does not wake one from slumbers deep. Wont stir long enough to solve any problems of math.
When I was a kid (mid 80s) I made a program on my TI-99 (old ass computer, a bit like a commodore 64) which would go off flashing the screen and making hellish noises until I typed in a passphrase. Worked great for a few days, then I woke up late and found that I had just walked across the room and unplugged it without actually waking up.
@@JustAnotherBuckyLoverI don't have a breathing apparatus but I've absolutely solved 6 math problems then fell back asleep. I've also gotten up, climbed over stuff, scanned a QR code then went back to bed. I think the math ones are slightly more effective but the real key is getting to bed and falling asleep earlier which is something I'm terrible at.
The kissing mask is just another name for Dental Dam which is absolutely a thing some people supposedly use.
Dental Dam was invented for orally pleasuring a woman.
i don't need a watch to make me appreciate ever second i get to snuggle with my dog....she is my daughter, my baby, my angel so i appreciate every moment i get with her
That wall pillow would probably become target practice for people that get close to having had enough.
That human washing machine... Imagine how many of them would have been sold if they were smaller and specifically made for use with children? I shudder to think of the burns, strangulations, and other injuries if not outright deaths it could have caused.
TOSS IN A CHEERIO. Best potty training advice Ive gotten and it's a entertaining target.
Cat on a string wouldn't work. I had an owl statue in my yard, eventually the birds just ignored it, well, that was until a real owl showed up in my yard. Real owl was way more effective.
And all the critters were ignoring the the owl.
That would be a difficult realization.
Like Pink Floyd animals “bleating and babbling they fell on his neck with a scream”.
I have a pair of red-shouldered hawks that regularly cruise over my yard and occasionally land in my pecan tree, but the other birds don't seem to care.
Man, I worked in the service industry for 15 years as a cook, and if anybody ever told me to put a locking face mask on I would have punched them in the face. Working in a restaurant is already a miserable existence, like we need anything to make it worse
Best part of this episode is picturing Joe in a red lobster uniform. 🎉
you should do a reoccurring segment of these. just one at the end of every episode.
Expanding with as much info as possible!
Like epic patents that just missed the mark.
Ok, this needs to be a trilogy. Hoping for a part 3!!! Who else agrees?
Still wishing for this to be a trilogy.
Cat on a string reminded me of an invention I've seen. A type of scarecrow, it consists of several flag poles in and around a garden. Attached via a string is a very realistic bird kite. Even a small breeze sends the birds (Hawks, Eagles and Falcons are the preferred profiles) fly like the wind (literally :). It does a pretty good job of keeping rodents down when your trained cats go on strike ;). Great video. Thanks
i was believing this story to the point of "tained cats". sus. :I
@@FlaschenteufelObviously not trained well if they feel the need to strike...
@@grn1 cats aren't dogs, you can't really train them. you can live with them and care for them.
@@Flaschenteufel That's the joke.
i agree with the small barrier to eating. i started brushing my teeth right after dinner, just so id have to do it again if i snack... so i eat less.
Oh boy! I was a baker & fryer. We didn't sell glazed long John's, but when I'd fry them up, I'd "accidentally" drop them into the bowl of glaze... "Oops! well, I guess I'll have to eat it"😂 those were good days.
Oh yeah, 14 years as a baker in a supermarket....oops, so many leftover little bits of cookies, well they smell good so I'll help myself. Totally didn't break them beforehand, nope.
@MrGoesBoom 😆 🤣 Right! Did you use bun smear on the cinnamon rolls when making pecan rolls? If you did, did it absolutely stink! Or did you not mind it? I can't eat a pecan roll because I smell it & NOPE! 🤢
I spent most of my childhood playing and entertaining myself so I developed the habit of talking out loud, a lot; all day long, even in public. I can pat my own back, tyvm. 😂
Lmao
What we have at work is a hand printed on a piece of paper taped to the wall. If you need a pat on the back for good work, you back into it 2 or 3 times.
Excited to see this series continue. This is fun. Funny that nothing breached B Tier this time. Last one was a lot more high tier stuff.
I made the mistake of telling a kid in HS who worked at Red Lobster how much I loved Cheddar Bay Biscuits, seeing as the next day he showed up to 6th hour with an entire garbage bag of them.
Funny thing about that pee target. A lot of parenting sources say to use Cheerios(TM) or similarly shaped cereal for targets. Don' need to wad up toilet paper. Just a few of those floaty, oat loops in the water, and Jr's got an hour of water gun entertainment.
Dutch urinals have the picture of a fly at the target location.
AN HOUR!?!? How much are these kids pissing???
@@bcase5328 When I was in high school in the 80's the local bowling alley had urinal cake covers with Jane Fonda's face on them, mouth open and read "I'm not fonda Jane."
Finally a real world use for that disgusting cereal. I call them little cardboard cutouts.
Until your kid starts pissing in their breakfast 😮
The best part that actually made me chuckle was at the end with the reference to the baby trebuchet. Which I had forgotten about. X-D
"Baby trebuchet" legit made me laugh out loud for 20 seconds. I'd forgotten about that one too
It was the episode I didn't know I was looking forward to! Thanks Joe!
Nice transition at the end there. Tim and Ben would be proud
Scotts refining his humor, since he's got the acting nailed down tight.🤠
There's a meme I reposted on my FB and IG that accurately points out there needs to be an alarm clock that sounds like a pet starting to puke, as nothing gets one out of bed faster...
LOL
For aim training, I always used a cheerio that was flushed down.
As my father got older, he benefited from the use of a bar above the toilet which he could lean on with one hand while peeing. It allowed him to remain independent a lot longer, I’m glad to say. So I would suggest it’s not just the inebriated who benefit from having something to help steady them.
I had a book of these inventions back in the late 70s. I distinctly remember a bicycle seat.
Edit: Is that Maximillian from The Black Hole behind you?
Isaac Singer really WAS sewing....his seed.
Boo hiss!
😐😐
Barf
N'yuk, yuk.
I’ll be here all week, make sure to tip your waitress on the way out.
6:41 sounds like someone who's never found out:
1: did you know a slight forward lean has been shown to make for an easier flow when urinating, helps more of the leftovers drain out, has been shown to prevent urinary infections & overall bladder health
2: it's actually kinda chill to just lean like that. ALSO: if you don't need a bit of help to stay up when peeing, you just haven't drunk enough yet! xD
Dental dams (A.K.A. the mouth condom) are an actual thing and fairly common for certain groups, a one night stand between two women for instance is better served by one of these than a 'normal' condom that uh.. doesn't really have anywhere to wrap around.
Came here to say this lol!
I mean, also between a man and a woman if he isn't selfish 😉
So there is something to the face chastity belt and what you were saying about obstacles. My roommate and I decided that we would cook everything from scratch. Which means if I want potatoes au gratin, or mac and cheese, or even Ramen, I don't make the pastas myself but I have to make the cheese sauces and assemble all the spices, and especially with potatoes au gratin which I would argue is one of the worst offenders LOL. That's like a hour-and-a-half prep time
The face smash alarm click. Yeah, if I were to suggest gifting such a thing to my wife...I'd be looking at a permanent, one way trip to the doghouse. Or worse.
Don't worry you can keep track of time with the dog watch in the doghouse.
Hell, my husband is so damn deaf, he NEEDS one of them!
Please, please, do the next video explaining things with the Pepe da Silva background!
You have the same voice , intonation and accent, as Charlie from it's always sunny in Philadelphia. It will be hilarious !
You should make a video about crows intelligence, Joe!
He already did. Check his smartest animals video
@@binkssake7282 You are right!! Thank you, I am watching it right now haha
My invisalign often "prevents" me from snacking. I don't feel like going to the bathroom to remove it so I don't eat outside lunch and dinner time.
Bread lol. Idk if it's gonna be on here cause we don't often think as an invention, but bread is def one of the weirdest inventions in history. We think it was one of those accidental inventions. Like some yeast randomly got into someone's wheat porridge and they heated it up. It was probably really bad and doughy but maybe they thought they were on to something lol
Wild yeast exists in the air and gets on literally everything. That's how sourdough starter can simply be made with flour+water+time+scheduled feeding. Bread experts say not to use bleached flour, but add a week or two of babying before you're ready to bake and it still works. So some ancient person stumbling onto the fermentation process while trying to make naan or some other kind of flat bread is probably exactly how it happened.
same thing with beer, probably. "Hey my malt went bad, you know what let's try to *drink* it anyway. Oh wait is making me drunk? F*** yeah, I'm a genius"
I used to do IT stuff for a Biological and Agricultural Engineering department at an university. Basically, how to engineer farm equipment. Apparently a common problem on large farms is... disposing of animal carcasses. So most of the professors had multiple patents for large machines for doing just that. All of the patent drawings resembled something from the Saw movies. Fixing someone's computer while staring at patent plaques describing "Apparatus for pulverizing animal carcasses" is a tiny bit unsettling.
Speaking of the dog watch, one day I am going to put a fit bit on my dog and see if she gets twice as many steps as me.
Your dog must be freaking enormous, most would take 3-8 times as many. Also don't forget the extra legs. ( to only take twice as many your dog would be 30+ inches tall )( Great Danish )
You have to think more deeply about the implications of some of these inventions... the scare cat for example wouldnt fly around, because of the way a metal spring works. It would actually look like a cat that hops all over the place, like a cat that catches birds. This is surprisingly well thought out and deserves a higher rank, because other then scarecrows, this one might actually work.
Aren't chefs supposed to taste food, for quality control?
BTW, I've seen the kissing shield before. I once bought a game (called "What the What?") that basically consisted of pictures of weird inventions and you either tried to guess it (if you were playing it for the first time) or tried to come up with the funniest alternative explanation for what it was. There were some seriously messed up inventions shown in that game.
As a chef who was lucky enough to work during covid, masks did stop you from tasting as often. Also led to some dehydration as you didn't drink as much during long shifts in a hot kitchen.
man I've been binging all your stuff again, your a life saver for overnight security staff😂
That first one kills me!! Looks like just using the thing would result in one then needing a device that massages one's shoulder -- ah-ha! A self-feeding market!!
I can imagine some of these patent writers laughing their ass off while they are typing.
that's me on the written portion of any test
Like the Washing Bath invention (minus the neck strangler) in stead of using a washing machine, think how much laundry one could wash compared to a WM.
I'm surprised you didn't use a hannibal lecter reference for the anti eating mask. Would be useful in more ways than one. lol.
The "anti-eating face mask" I imagine has a MUUUCH larger market with the S&M crowd. As does the "mouth condom." "Rubber lips are immune to your charm" references here.
Looking forward to the third installment.
The flying cat idea isn't that bad... The field across the street has a pole with a red kite (the small raptor bird) on it. I really do think it works. And it looks kinda cool too.
Cat on a string: my cats generally forget How To Cat; while one does make moves against mourning doves, all the cats literally ignore the yard squirrels that have tamed themselves, noting the humans carry almonds for them so they'll come right up to be given a nut (even hopping onto pants legs and shoulders).
What would be great is a vacuum tube food delivery system like a bank's drive in check tube. Only bigger, about 12 inches in diameter, connected to a local food hub to service about a dozen neighborhoods in a few minutes and you don't have to leave the house, just turn a vacuum on until a bell rings and your little tube delivery smashes into the stop block and you send a signal back and when it is unloaded you open your vent and it get's sucked back to the store. The switch lines are kind of problematic as you would need a separate tube for each resident, like maybe a hundred and fifty tubes. This would also work for laundry in an apartment building or hotel.
13:40 - temporal resolution and critical flicker fusion, coolest stuff to me; direct correlation between perceived passage of time and TR
Toilet training my grandson, we floated cheerios for him to aim at. The standing pee was several steps into his actual housetraining. The bathtub application was for psychiatric hospitals.
5:46 Urinal headrests definitely exist. I remember a Newfoundland actor going on and on about how Newfoundland had headrests on their urinals so that when you were drunk you could just "lean in there" and him lamenting the fact that Ontario bathrooms didn't seem to have them.
Also, if I'm remembering this correctly this would have been about 2 years after that patent was granted. So perhaps Newfoundland was an early market? I'm curious if they still have them today.
The invention of the sewing machine is a super convoluted story! Abby Cox did a very entertaining video about it. I highly recommend.
Zephyr is a thin tough paperlike material made from the wall of a cow or goats intestine, used for covering the bellows in singing bird snuff boxes etc.
Zephyr being the Greek word for air .
The first video on this topic was so interesting!!! I'm glad you made a pt. 2 and fingers crossed you turn it into a series!!
My Godson was taught to aim properly by us putting a few Cheerios (cereal), or I suppose one could use Fruit Loops for variety. If he actually hit one, he got a star on his calendar .that hung by the toilet. If he sank one or more, he got to pick a cheap toy wrapped in newspaper (so he didn’t know what it was, and kept in a cloth bag (hung where he couldn’t reach. He also got a special sticker in his calendar for that day.
The Cheerios were cheap, biodegradable, and couldn’t break down. We put 3 of them in the bowl each time he needed to go, so he had the chance of up to 3 stars, a toy, and a special sticker every time. The side benefits were that he drank more water, and he never had another accident (because he really wanted those stars, stickers, and toys.
It worked a treat…we even had little ziplock bags with cheerios for when we were away from home for a movie, or shopping etc. once we didn’t need them for toilet, we used the same system for his household chores, and dressing himself, personal hygiene was all covered by the stars and stickers…until he became old enough to prefer money.⭐️⭐️⭐️🧚🏼🖤🇨🇦
I 100% love the urinal headrest. I just wanna relax when standing at the urinal and often lean up against the divider, but leaning forward and just putting my head on the wall seems unsanitary and cold, but a pad would be cool. Especially if it had sanitizing gel next to it haha
thank you for not calling this an "ICEBERG"
Too warm for iceberg.
Dogwatch is quite clever - maybe not worn by the pet, but kept by the owner as perspective and appreciation for every moment ~
Those headrests for urinals are S-Tier!! They had them in Czech Republic in some bars and it was amazing, everything was walk-able so no driving.
I really wish Factor/Hello Fresh was available in Norway. I would probably eat WAY healthier, and I could support you at the same time!
Interesting that you mentioned 3 patents that are in the board game called Inventors that I played as a kid.
i was too young to understand the game, but i liked the plastic patent clip holder/dice roller tower that came with it😄
Having just returned from a six-week visit to South Korea, I noticed while visiting there were a number of public urinals that had a sticker of a fly at an appropriate location in the urinal. Something to aim at
nothing will ever replace the tactical and strategic genius of that tried and true training method masterpiece called " sink the cheerios". oh, and btw, take a gander at the "turd twister".
The ball boat sounds kinda cool as a fantasy vehicle. Like a blimp but for water. Maybe to balance it they could have used a hotdog shape instead of a ball shape? But then again, it would still be at risk of tipping forward or back.
the toilet toy exists for drunk adults as well.
A little sticker of a fly (designed to withstand the liquid and the detergents) placed on the inside of the "bowl" / urinal.
that way drunk people are more likely to aim rather than mess up the bathroom...
For a good alternative for the toilet toy... Cheerios. If you have a low flow toilet, they don't even need to be refreshed that often.
10/10 would cry at how life is 5-7x shorter for my kitten than me again.
That watch would be a good teaching tool for trying to get people empathetic to other species. Also neat is that elephants have a similar lifespan to humans, so an "elephant" watch would be a regular one. Helps you appreciate how long-lived some species can be!
I have a patent pending on the mechanism that makes us human. We are 99% genetically the same as the great apes. Humanity arises from the Microbiome. Apes have a few dozen gut bacterial species, whereas humans can have a thousand species organized into the human Microbiome. These become small chemical factories producing the neurotransmitters, etc.that make us human.
For example, speech involves 9 species of bacteria. Some birds have all of these but apes do not. When all of this breaks down ...we get aging. Been trying to patent THAT ...since 2012.
Patenting something you didn't invent... yeah, that'll work... NOT.
In the past few weeks, I saw a video on how animals experience the passage of time. Some perceive time more slowly, like dogs. To them, we move in slow motion.
The Pat-On-The-Back machine gets an F but the Quadruple-Kick-In-The-Butt machine gets a C. Clearly Joe has priorities.
During that time of the pandemic, I was at work in the cafeteria at lunchtime and saw one of my coworkers try to put some food in his mouth while he still had a mask on. He caught himself then started laughing! It was just what we all thought could happen.
but imagine if it was a dog fit bit? i bet you a million people would buy that. i know, it's probably already a thing i just never heard of
Regarding the Toilet Toy, what's wrong with just playing "Sink the Cheerios?" They float, they are a good target, and they're flushable.
Simone Giertz made a Pat on the Back machine. It’s a pretty good video.
The boat-plane-sphere HAS to be a toy fantasy.
Somebody had (or imagined) such a toy as a kid, and never met reality.
In the 90s Schiphol (one of Europe's largest airports) got urinals with a fly inside the bowl. IIRC it was not just a sticker, it was actually in the porcelain mold, and placed in the optimal position to minimize splash-back. Yeah, imagine trying to get a grant for that research project. Reportedly it reduced 'spillage' by some 80%.
I have seen some toilets where they will have a bug painted onto the bowl, so that kids have something to aim at. It has the benefit that nobody has to touch it and it is part of the bowl, so no extra splash.
With all the toilet patents I'm surprised you didn't make a P tier