From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 04:43:48 MDT
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http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html
Copyright 2002 Chuck Shepherd
Spanish inventor Andres Diaz made the first U.S. sale of his
$20,000, side-loading, automatic cat-washing machine late last year
to a Miami company, PetClean USA. The three-cycle, 37-nozzle machine
processes the cat in 30 minutes, and Diaz swears the cat doesn't
mind it. (And in March, Antrim, Northern Ireland, inventor Trevor
Graham was awarded about $8,500 from the Winston Churchill
Foundation to study mobile dog-washing equipment in the U.S.)
[National Post, 12-27-01] [Irish Examiner, 3-30-02]
Other Recent Inventions: Vladimir Markov's "anti-rape" jeans, with a
locked, coded steel top button designed to discourage attackers who
haven't time to figure out how to open it (Croatia). And
college-student inventors' pulsating vest composed of eight cellular
phones' vibrating units sewn in to touch acupuncture-friendly parts
of the abdomen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore). [The
Nation (Bangkok), 10-26-01] [Bangkok Post-AP, 12-8-01]
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