The IG Awards

Hello IGWers,
I was recently alerted to the IG awards. They state they are put in place to make people laugh as well as think. This year’s winners continue to supply the laughs.
1. Biology- bacteria from panda waste helps to reduce to reduce the mass of kitchen waste. (How exactly does one think of this solution?)
2. [...]

Breathalyzer Costume Goes Too Far

Hello IGWers,
This one is pretty funny. You definitely should take your drunkeness or future drunkness into account before looking for a costume. It appears that one man from Ohio took it a bit too far on Halloween. He dressed up like a Breathalizer. However, he got into a car and drove over the limit. He [...]

Death of a Palm Pre

Hello IGWers:
You’ll have to check out what happens when the Palm Pre collides with beer.
Amusement ensues.
Hondo

Marge Simpson Playboy?

Hello Innovation Gone Wrong Readers:
Tell me something. How does Marge Simpson end up on the cover of Playboy. I saw this in the news recently.
I didn’t really know what to say. Playboy is a world of hurt financially. Will cartoons drive back the viewers? I guess we have to wait and see. I have great [...]

Anti-Smell: Zicam

Hello IGWers,
Are you tired of your sense of smell? If you are, you are in luck. 130 patients of Zicam have complained that they have lost their sense of smell due to the drug. You know when I think of cold medicine, I think of maybe being tired, but losing my smell never comes up. [...]

Neuticles: Your pets will have a ball

Hello IGWers,
Tell me something. Do you ever get in the situation where you have neutured your dog and all of a sudden Spike isn’t quite who he used to be. Well you are in luck. Neuticles has taken the liberty of patenting the cosmetic testicle replacement for pets. Now Spike is at least cosmetically back [...]

Botched Music Genome Project

Hi IGWers,
Of course many of you know about Pandora.com. It is an awesome site and part of my daily experience, however, it got me thinking. Now that Pandora essentially dominates the recommended music market there might still be an opening the other direction. That is in the unrecommended music collection. I’m talking about going right [...]