čtvrtek 17. května 2012

Soup bowl from a brick

I have been examined on creativity and asked "For what can you use a brick?". And I thought about using a brick as a soup bowl in a restaurant. Just imagine the eyes of a surprised guest when you tell him "here is your soup" and all he can see is a plate with a steaming brick. The same brick from which the restaurant is built.

How to create a bowl from a brick:
  1. You need a high quality brick, which doesn't crumble. It can have decorative imprints on it's sides.
  2. Use lathe to carve a bath into the brick. It's possible to carve a logo into the sides of the bowl.
  3. Use hydrophobic impregnation to prevent soaking of water by the brick during the washing. 
  4. Glaze the inside of the bath so the customer has a sense of cleanliness.

pátek 11. května 2012

Greatest easily replicable inventions of 20th century

By simple I mean things you can replicate in a reasonably short time just yourself, given you know ahead how to make them.
  1. Diffie-Hellman asymmetric cipher
  2. Game theory applied to prisoners dilemma, Nash equilibrium
  3. Prospect theory. Demonstrate it on a questionnaire
  4. Penicilin. Use bread
  5. Nylon. Use it on Velcro - demonstrate it on shoe for kids. Use on pantyhose and toothbrush
  6. Ballpoint Pen
  7. Zip
  8. Slinky
  9. Rubic cube
  10. Sticky notes
  11. Contact lenses
  12. Two-ply toilet paper 
  13. Dunning-Krugger effect (Wikipedia)
  14. Bubble wrap 
  15. Elastic rope 
  16. Jenga (Wikipedia) 
  17. Twister game 
  18. Crosswords
  19. Controlled studies in medicine 
  20. Fastener