<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>The Weirdest Inventions You Never Knew You Needed : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>102289</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/102289/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Weirdest Inventions You Never Knew You Needed]]></title><description><![CDATA[Being an inventor today must be really difficult. In the olden days, you could think of something pretty reasonable and bring it to life. Now, coming up with new contraptions for everyday living is somewhat more difficult. Here's a bunch of odd inventions that you might just want to go out and buy...]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>35</score><crdate>3/26/2009 12:35:21 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-03-26T12:35:21+01:00</atomdate></link><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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