Inventor's hands-free newspaper stand plan

"The stand works by holding a newspaper open whilst still allowing the reader to turn the pages - imagine a curved upside down hair-grip shape on a stand."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/8584674.stm

Museum of Ancient Inventions

http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsclist.htm

Sno-baller is about 4 billion years overdue

"The Sno-baller operates similar to a pair of scissors. Use it to pick up snow and it will pack the snow it into a perfect sphere, ready for the throwing. And with those winter storms blanketing the country with snow, this is a must-have on those glorious snow days."

LiTraCon - Light transmitting concrete

Litracon™ is a combination of optical fibres and fine concrete. It can be produced as prefabricated building blocks and panels. Due to the small size of the fibres, they blend into concrete becoming a component of the material like small pieces of aggregate. In this manner, the result is not only two materials - glass in concrete - mixed, but a third, new material, which is homogeneous in its inner structure and on its main surfaces as well.

http://www.litracon.hu/

'Just add water' instant shelters

An emergency shelter which can be set up in 40 minutes as a solid concrete structure will be made in south Wales after winning worldwide interest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7107940.stm