Міністерство освіти і науки, молоді та спорту України Київський університет

Бориса Грінченка
Університетський коледж
Індивідуальне навчально-дослідне завдання
з практичного курсу англійської мови
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тему: Безглузді винаходи

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Студентка 44 ПО групи
Семак Альбіна Іванівна
Київ - 2012

Patent office for over 150 years.
How has technology changed

the world?
While the flush toilet, aspirin, the computer, the pill,
The photo-copier and the mobile phone have proved invaluable,
The same cannot be said of every innovation.

with cloths built into the soles. Clean while you walk.

Now everybody can feel like Cinderella, before she got a fairy godmother. Rumours flying around say that this company is also making sweeping-brush pants and pot-scrub gloves.

cut a banana with a specially made banana slicer? I

wouldn’t mind so much if the slicer could be used for slicing other things, but it’s banana shaped, so unless there’s a lof of banana shaped things you need to slice into semi-equal segments, you’re kind of out of luck.

hands off each other. They constantly touch each other and

it makes everyone around them seriously uncomfortable. But this, this is a whole other level. For the freaky co-dependent couple in your life, comes the tandem bicycle of the sweater world. Yes, it’s the two-person sweater.

people the world. Take a look around you and don’t

be surprise to find many of the things you use and deal with daily are invented by them.

However inventing a lot doesn’t put an equivalent to useful invention.

(not patented), 1995

that has absolutely no regard for your being. We have

no need for them and our lives are in no way enhanced by their mere existence, yet there they cunningly tease you with fancy buzz words or hilarious design until you cave and buy it. Sometimes, when I’m watching television and an ad comes on and it’s for something useless I like to scream at the television like it’s a sentient being that will listen to what I have to say and react accordingly. By “accordingly”, I do mean not subjecting me to ads for the feckless crap. Here’s a list of some of the most useless inventions I’ve ever seen.