Wacky Weird Gadgets

Sir Hugh Beaver was the inventor of the concept of Guinness World Records.

The Unappreciated Joke a film by Thomas Edison

Famous trademarks belonging to the Grateful Dead

Flying saucers - yes - there are patents issued for this invention.

British eccentric, Arthur Paul Pedrick invented the oddest gadgets.

Popular Science magazine has recently opened their vaults and put a gallery together of the kookiest inventions to grace their pages. For instance in 1917, one inventor thought you just could not live without a combination piano-vacuum cleaner, adding new meaning to the phrase, "I suck at music."

Selected by IBM's Patent Search.

A hilarious look at goofy gadgets! Featuring a new invention each week.

Over the years, inventors have tried to solve many of the problems of daily life. Who could forget the vital advances to the state of the art that these gadgets have brought?

Proving the point that anyone can can patent anything, UK wacky patents and gadgets.

This is the second installment of wacky patents, the kind of inventions that, um, take The Smoking Gun's breath away.