Inventions and patents...

Read at lunch:

There is an inventor in South Africa that hopes to combat the worst sex assault rate in the world by creating an anti-rape condom. The female condom is inserted and worn all day. If she is attacked, the device sinks hooks in to the assailants penis. The idea was born when the inventor, a counselor for rape victims was told by a victim that she "wished she had teeth down there".

The U.S. Patent office got almost 400,000 applications last year, a record. They are so overtaxed that Apple is still waiting to receive a patent for the iPod.