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纽约时报杂志的年度创意大赏 (ZT)

这是纽约时报杂志第五年举办这样的评选.该创意大奖比商业周刊,时代周刊等例行的年度科技创新相比,更有趣的地方在于那些创意覆盖的领域包括了:政治,科学,医学,法律,爆米花学和赛骆驼等,其中既有很聪明的,但大抵对人类进程没有大帮助的主意,也有一些好象很愚蠢,但却最起码却能增添我们瞬间的阅读愉悦的主意.
完全的在这里:
www.nytimes.com/2005/12/1...as1-2.html
从这里开始一页一页翻/

下面是选摘的部分:


Anti-Rape Condom
一种女用的,内壁有很多塑料钉齿状哩器的反强奸避孕套!但是对于强暴者来说,其'作案工具'也只是人性化地使其表面受创,不会令其永久性失去功能.



但是我凭直觉感到,如果这个产品广大地投入生产和市场的话,其主要用途将广泛地在其他方面,比如弱小女性用其对男性伴侣泄忿,S/M享乐分子,止手指脚指冻疮痒(这是我看到这个东西的第一反应).


The anti-paparazzi flash


The anti-paparazzi flash: 1. The celebrity prey. 2. The lurking photographer. 3. The offending camera is detected and then bombed with a beam of light. 4. Voila! A blurry image of nothing much.


Collapsing the Distribution Window

In February, the film industry as we know it may change forever. That's when "Bubble," a low-budget murder mystery directed by Steven Soderbergh, will appear in theaters - and on cable, and on DVD, all on the same day. The movie is the first in a six-film deal between Soderbergh and 2929 Entertainment, a partnership led by the media moguls Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner, which includes theaters, cable channels and production and distribution companies. While no one expects "Bubble" to break box-office records, even a modicum of success could indicate the arrival of something many in the movie business have anticipated - and feared - for years: universal release.
简而言之,Soderbergh尝试将电影在电影院首映和在有线电视,DVD同天进行.


Consensual Interruptions

Consensual Interruptions: 1. A call comes in on your cellphone. 2. Others' finger rings vibrate. 3. If someone doesn't want you to answer your phone, he can veto the call by touching the ring, and you won't get to talk.


Do-It-Yourself Cartography


Maps from Chicagocrime.org
1. Recent crimes in a particular ZIP code. 2. Recent crimes in a four-block area. 3. Recent bank robberies in one area. 4. Recent homicides in the same area. 5. Recent crimes along a specific route.

Chicagocrime.org帮你画出你关心地区的犯罪地图


Embryo Adoption


Bush promoting embryo adoption.

收养婴儿已经太晚,收养受精卵才是王道.

Fleeting Relationship, The

Americans put a premium on sustaining intimate relationships, but could it be that they gain as much emotional sustenance from the relative strangers they meet on commuter trains, in the stands at softball games and even at strip clubs?
"Together Alone: Personal Relationships in Public Places" ,也就是在公共场所建立的个人短暂感情是人类重要情感之一.这种人际关系命名为FLEETING RELATIONSHIP.多发与酒吧,STRIP CLUB,商店,路遇等场合.


Forehead Billboards

顶在前额上的路边公告牌,建议STARBUCKS的员工使用,避免每个顾客都在那里以费力的姿势仰视!


Gastronomic Reversals

Fried mayonnaise? Hot ice cream? Chocolate pudding that can be sliced and cut? This year witnessed the flourishing of an unusual culinary fashion: dishes that, with the addition of certain chemicals, turn hot into cold or moist into dry or create an invisible boundary between the two.
颠覆食物(其实是我阿婆几十年前就在做的事情,比如她要把冰砖稍微烧一烧才吃的)


The genetic theory of Harry Potter .

This summer, the journal Nature published "Harry Potter and the Recessive Allele," a letter that argued that J. K. Rowling's tales of the young wizard Harry Potter offer an opportunity to educate children in modern theories of heredity.

As almost everyone above the age of 3 knows, the Harry Potter novels depict a world divided into people who possess magical powers (wizards and witches) and those who do not (Muggles). Not everyone can be a wizard; indeed, after careful review of the evidence, the authors of the Nature letter concluded that wizards evidently inherit their gifts from their parents as predicted by the theories of the 19th-century geneticist Gregor Mendel.


His-and-Her TV, The

The controlled-viewing-angle LCD looks like a regular TV screen. From her angle: a steamy French movie. From his angle: a buzzer beater.

花这个精力研究这个在LCD上的技术,还不如用在人脸上啊,那么每天每个人都是两面三刀的脸,多神气.

Juvenile Cynics
Adults often extol children for their innocence, but according to a recent study by researchers at Yale's department of psychology, kids are in fact the most hardened of cynics.

The study, which was written by Candice M. Mills and Frank C. Keil and appeared in the May 2005 issue of the journal Psychological Science, suggests that young children are especially apt to believe that when people distort the truth, they do so for selfish reasons. In one part of the experiment, kindergartners, second graders, fourth graders and sixth graders read or heard short stories about the outcomes of various contests. The children were then informed that some of the characters in these stories had falsely reported the results of the contests. The children had to decide whether the misstatements were due to lying, bias or innocent error.
小朋友是世界上最嫉世愤俗的人.


Laptop That Will Save the World, The

这种低成本的,WIRELESS接驳INTERNET的LAPTOP售价$100,估计在2008年问世.

National Smiles




Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley, contends that Americans and the English smile differently. On this side of the Atlantic, we simply draw the corners of our lips up, showing our upper teeth. Think Julia Roberts or the gracefully aged Robert Redford. "I think Tom Cruise has a terrific American smile," Keltner, who specializes in the cultural meaning of emotions, says. In England, they draw the lips back as well as up, showing their lower teeth. The English smile can be mistaken for a suppressed grimace or a request to wipe that stupid smile off your face. Think headwaiter at a restaurant when your MasterCard seems tapped out, or Prince Charles anytime.
现在不仅开始有英式英语和美式英语,现在还有ENGLISH SMILE AND AMERICAN SMILE,见上图,决定你要带那种口音,穿哪种笑容


The runaway alarm clock.

对早上起不来的人,这个闹钟会在初闹以后,从床头柜上跳起来,然后陆续蹦到房间的另一边,开始狂叫,逼你起床去做掉它的声道!然后你就彻底醒了!



Splogs

Newton's third law of motion applies on the Internet as well as in the physical world: for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The convenience of e-mail messages triggered the annoyance of spam. And now the democracy of Web logs has brought forth the duplicity of spam blogs, or splogs.

During one weekend in October, persons unknown used Google's blog-creation tool, Blogger, to generate more than 13,000 fake blogs. Hosted on Google's free BlogSpot Web site, these splogs consisted of nonsense text, postings swiped from legitimate blogs and, most important, links to sites that sploggers were trying to promote.
有EMAIL就有SPAM EMAILS,有BLOG,现在也有了Sblog.


Uneavesdroppable Phone Conversation, The


Two speakers and a sound generator that attach to your phone. The generator records the phonemes, or building blocks, of your speech. Then when you activate the device, it generates a stream of counteracting sounds
防偷听电话装置让坐在你隔壁CUBE的老头子听不到你在讲甚末!


完全名单:
Accredited Bliss
Anti-Paparazzi Flash, The
Anti-Rape Condom, The
Branding Nations
Cartoon Empathy
Celebrity Teeth
Cobblestones are Good for You
Collapsing the Distribution Window
Consensual Interruptions
Conservative Blogs are More Effective
Dialing Under the Influence
Do-It-Yourself Cartography
Dolphin Culture
Econophysics
Embryo Adoption
Ergomorphic Footwear

Fair Employment Mark, The
False-Memory Diet, The
Fleeting Relationship, The
Folksonomy
Forehead Billboards
Gastronomic Reversals
Genetic Theory of Harry Potter, The
Global Savings Glut, The
His-and-Her TV, The
Hollywood-Style Documentary, The
Hypomanic American, The
Infrared Pet Dry Room, The
In Vitro Meat
Juvenile Cynics
Laptop That Will Save the World, The
Localized Food Aid
Making Global Warming Work for You


Medical Maggots
Microblindness
Monkey Pay-Per-View
National Smiles
Open-Source Reporting
Parking Meters That Don't Give You a Break
Playoff Paradigm, The
Pleistocene Rewilding
Porn Suffix, The
Preventing Suicide Bombing
Readable Medicine Bottle, The
Republican Elitism
Robot Jockeys
Runaway Alarm Clock, The
Scientific Free-Throw Distraction
Seeing With Your Ears
Self-Fulfilling Trade Rumor, The


Serialized Pop Song, The
Sitcom Loyalty Oath, The
Solar Sailing
Sonic Gunman Locator, The
Splogs
Stash Rocket, The
Stoic Redheads
Stream-of-Consciousness Newspaper, The
Subadolescent Queen Bees
Suburban Loft, The
Synesthetic Cookbook, The
Taxonomy Auctions
"The Crawl" Makes You Stupid
Toothbrush That Sings, The
Totally Religious, Absolutely Democratic Constitution, The
Touch Screens That Touch Back
Trial-Transcript Dramaturgy
Trust Spray
Two-Dimensional Food
Uneavesdroppable Phone Conversation, The
Urine-Powered Battery, The
Video Podcasts
Why Popcorn Doesn't Pop
Worldwide Flat Taxes
Yawn Contagion
Yoo Presidency, The
Zero-Emissions S.U.V., The
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