Design
Kissing shield
BI-GOODNESS is a bi-monthly column dedicated to the quirky, generally funny and often dangerously impractical inventions and business concepts that occasionally come our way. It is a tribute to the one-eyed entrepreneur, the nutty professor and dotcom jockey in each of us. People of a certain vintage will remember the first truly shocking series of [...]
Light bulb changer: US patent 6,829,983
How many people does it take to change a light bulb? At long last, NONE! Inconveniences pepper our domestic existence. Whether it’s lifting and lowering the toilet seat, mowing the lawns, stirring coffee or the oppressive burden of maintaining personal hygiene, it’s the hum-drum of modern life that keeps us from the important stuff, like… [...]
All-terrain stroller: US patent 2,425,688
In these times of terror, you can never be too protected against the unexpected. But if your nerves are a little frayed these days, imagine how people felt in 1947, with two destructive world wars behind them and a potentially more menacing era of conflict underway. In this context, the robust inspiration behind US patent [...]
Anti-eating mouth cage
BI-GOODNESS is a bi-monthly column dedicated to the quirky, generally funny and often dangerously impractical inventions and business concepts that occasionally come our way. It is a tribute to the one-eyed entrepreneur the nutty professor and dotcom jockey in each of us. So it’s been a long festive season and you’ve grown a little soft [...]
Marketing: The secrets to web success
How does your website fit into your overall marketing strategy? If you don’t know, then it’s time to review your online activities. When the Internet took off in the nineties, it was a race to ‘get online’. Many businesses simply put their corporate brochure onto a website and were satisfied that they had an online [...]
Hijacker Injector
BI-GOODNESS is a bi-monthly column dedicated to the quirky, generally funny and often dangerously impractical inventions and business concepts that occasionally come our way. It is a tribute to the one-eyed entrepreneur, the nutty professor and dotcom jockey in each of us. HIJACKER INJECTOR It’s fair to say that aeroplane hijacking is a pursuit reserved [...]









