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To: Hot Tabasco

Someone’s way ahead of you.

An Ig Nobel Prize has been awarded for:

PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: Elena N. Bodnar, Raphael C. Lee, and Sandra Marijan of Chicago, Illinois, USA, for inventing a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander.
REFERENCE: U.S. patent # 7255627, granted August 14, 2007 for a “Garment Device Convertible to One or More Facemasks.”
WHO ATTENDED THE CEREMONY: Elena Bodnar.

https://www.ebbra.com

https://patents.google.com/patent/US7255627?oq=7255627


20 posted on 03/31/2020 4:59:08 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Interesting how those so interested in workERS are so disinterested in workING.)
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To: ctdonath2

Clever!


29 posted on 03/31/2020 5:11:29 PM PDT by Nevadan
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To: ctdonath2
Someone’s way ahead of you.

Damn! Well, there's always the individual mask made from an athletic supporter.......

31 posted on 03/31/2020 5:16:31 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I went to China and all I got was a cheap face mask and a cold)
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