<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : invention : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/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>9872</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/9872/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Have a Million Dollar Invention Idea?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Think you may have an invention idea worth millions? Then, you should audition to become the next American Inventor and win a million dollar licensing deal.  Here's all the details.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>-6</score><crdate>2/1/2007 10:37:07 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-01T10:37:07+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41142</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41142/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ass Kicking Machine]]></title><description><![CDATA[The author of the device says: &quot;I am looking for candidates to try out my new invention for a carnival. I need people with a good strong butt. Duties involve sustained blows to the rear by different brands of shoes attached to a rotating ferris wheel device.&quot;]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>62</score><crdate>11/9/2007 2:55:32 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-09T02:55:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41565</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41565/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New Invention Turns Warm Beer Icy Cold in Seconds Without Ice]]></title><description><![CDATA[Help is here for forgetful drunks everywhere.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>185</score><crdate>11/14/2007 12:34:02 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-14T00:34:02+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>36533</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36533/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Most Beautiful Machine]]></title><description><![CDATA[Interesting artistic invention. An &quot;on-off&quot; machine.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>145</score><crdate>9/24/2007 4:12:55 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-09-24T04:12:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41750</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41750/1/</url><title><![CDATA[A Robotic Camel Jockey Wins Top Invention Prize]]></title><description><![CDATA[Not much use for them in the US, but in the Middle East there is a big use for robotic camel jockeys I guess.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>61</score><crdate>11/15/2007 8:04:52 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-15T20:04:52+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48176</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48176/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Great Invention Idea?  Human Turd Scale]]></title><description><![CDATA[United States patent 1493222 is for &quot;A weighing device especially adapted for weighing feces as excreted.&quot; <br/><br/>Now, who doesn't need one?]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>287</score><crdate>1/23/2008 11:32:12 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-23T23:32:12+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>62180</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62180/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Coolest inventions of 2008]]></title><description><![CDATA[he world needs help. Power demands are rising, bridges are collapsing, cancer is still cancer. These are sweeping, global challenges, but the solutions may well end up coming from the garages and basements next door. As the winners of PopSci&#8217;s second annual Invention Awards demonstrate, invention&#8212;even world-changing invention&#8212;can happen anywhere there&#8217;s an idea and an endless drive to see that idea made real. Launch the articles and videos below for 10 examples of homespun creativity tackling real problems.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>77</score><crdate>5/17/2008 12:23:38 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-17T12:23:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>22786</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22786/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Inventor Creates New Type of Brick from Dust]]></title><description><![CDATA[A 70-year-old retired civil engineer has built a new kind of brick-stronger, cheaper, cleaner-out of a waste byproduct of coal plants called &quot;fly ash.&quot;]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>6</score><crdate>6/5/2007 12:32:20 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-05T12:32:20+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>70212</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/70212/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Inventor rolls out efficient non-stop train system]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Taiwanese inventor with no credentials has devised an ingenious non-stop train that will save fuel and time. <br/><br/>The idea seems simple, but the experts have not yet weighed in.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>68</score><crdate>7/27/2008 1:03:39 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-27T01:03:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>48220</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/48220/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Pen Top Utensils]]></title><description><![CDATA[<b>THE FUTURE IS HERE!</b><br/><br/>Hehe...]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>487</score><crdate>1/24/2008 8:50:58 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-24T08:50:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>14034</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/14034/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Soon divers will be able to breathe like fish.]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Israeli Inventor has developed a breathing apparatus that will allow breathing underwater without the assistance of compressed air tanks.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>70</score><crdate>3/24/2007 11:30:14 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-24T11:30:14+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46217</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/46217/1/</url><title><![CDATA[What's The Next Hot Invention?]]></title><description><![CDATA[How about a revolutionary computer screen? Cars powered by hydrogen? Books we can read electronically? Better football helmets? More efficient buildings?]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>191</score><crdate>1/6/2008 9:33:04 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-06T21:33:04+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>10039</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/10039/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Microsoft Innovation Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[BBC Coverage of Microsoft's Innovation day, where they show some pretty cool stuff. Especially the interactive table is cool.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>13</score><crdate>2/3/2007 6:09:36 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-02-03T18:09:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>41881</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/41881/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Door That Flips to Become a Ping-Pong Table]]></title><description><![CDATA[Quite a space saver.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>148</score><crdate>11/17/2007 10:26:29 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-17T10:26:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>9541</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/9541/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Shoelodex!!!]]></title><description><![CDATA[A rotating shoe storage...thingy.  I want one...no seriously, someone buy me this thing.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>49</score><crdate>1/25/2007 1:20:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-25T13:20:13+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>22828</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/22828/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Making Water From Thin Air]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two architects pursuing PhDs at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have devised a low-tech way to collect dew from the air and turn it into fresh water.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>73</score><crdate>6/5/2007 11:57:35 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-05T23:57:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>4037</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/4037/1/</url><title><![CDATA[10 Biggest Computer Flops of all time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most of us have heard how the first PC was created by IBM, who wasn't interested in the technology, didn't see it going anywhere compared to their photocopiers.<br/><br/>What other horrible computer flops were there? Glad you asked, here are the top-10 flops]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>5</score><crdate>10/22/2006 8:58:50 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-22T20:58:50+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46406</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/46406/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New Superbed Does Almost Everything for You]]></title><description><![CDATA[You never need to leave your bed again.  This bed is completely controlled by the on-board computer, which sports 1,500GB of memory.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>127</score><crdate>1/8/2008 11:42:33 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-08T11:42:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>13012</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/13012/1/</url><title><![CDATA[What men and women invented?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inventions and discoveries that were made by men and women....]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>2</score><crdate>3/13/2007 12:48:28 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-13T12:48:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>9604</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/9604/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hop to it!]]></title><description><![CDATA[For $300, you can buy a souped-up pogo stick that uses compressed air to launch users up to 6 feet into the air. Still no flying cars available, but it looks like we're finally making progress.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>110</score><crdate>1/26/2007 2:58:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-01-26T14:58:13+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>