Weird Inventions

At last, some brilliant inventor has finally come up with perhaps the ultimate in home appliances: the Indoor Sundial.

As the authors of Weird Inventions explain: "This device allows you to use a sundial even when the sun isn't shining. The accurate clock motor keeps lamp in rotation around the dial just like the sun. Correct orientation is accomplished by free-turning design of the lamp bracket rotor. This unique timepiece blends ancient world charm with antiquated nineteenth century technology. Uses regular household current and voltage. Weight=800 lbs."

A wrist model is also available, conceptually speaking.

Other inventions of note: the Invisible House, the Anti-Smoking Cowboy Hat, the Snormuffler, and, finally, wedgie-proof underwear.

Weird Inventions is a single page in a virtual Bazaar of the Bizarre offered through Saddletrout Studios, a site devoted to surrealist art. And yet, bizarrely enough, on this same site you will also find two eminently practical graphic-artist-like tutorials: Drawing with Mice and the Saddletrout Animation Workshop. Apparently, wonders will, in fact, never cease.