Invention Round Up: Ice and Cream Edition

INVENTION 1
THE XBOX CONTROLLER/HOMEMADE ICE CREAM MAKER

How do you eat ice cream out of it? Hold the Xbox controller above your head and press “I”. For iced cream, the most delicious of all the creams. Vanilla, chocolate, butterscotch. It doesn’t matter, this thing can make it. Is it an ice cream flavor? Yes, now it’s in your mouth. In fact, that’s the tagline for this amazing device. “Yes, Now It’s In Your Mouth!”

Should you eat out of something you put your hands on all the time? Well, wipe it off first! This isn’t the year 2099! You still have to clean up after yourself. How is the ice cream made? Just pour milk and sugar and salt and maybe bananas in the top of the controller. Now put it in the freezer. Do you keep your television and Xbox in your giant walk-in freezer? I hope so. Wear a coat!

I drew both inventions from this round-up on the back of an envelope asking me to switch cable providers. That’s supposed to be an ice cream cone and an Xbox controller there on the left but it looks more like a Who from Who-ville is about to sit down to dinner at his kidney shaped dining room table. As you can see, he has five empty plates and a decapitated head.

INVENTION 2
AN ICED CAR ROOF

This is essentially a bag of ice and water lining the roof of your car. If your car is like mine, with intermittent air conditioning, the high summer temperatures can be brutal- especially here in Atlanta. So what you do is you install this iced water bag, which comes with its own refrigeration and cooling system, based on the same technology used in the ice cream making Xbox controller, patent pending!

When the heat becomes unbearable and you’re stuck in traffic listening to Jazz 91.9 FM (the jazz of the city!), just yank on the handy cord and the bag will release a freezing wintry mix on your head and the heads of your passengers. Just like if you teleported to the North Pole for a second. Or a snowman teleported into your car, but he’s dying. As you can see above, I’ve illustrated the car with drops of water and ice raining down on the interior of the car, but it looks more like the Who-ville cops have located our serial killing Who and are about to ram him with their car. Maybe he’s like the Dexter of Who-ville. Look out, ethical murderer Who! They found the bodies you hid at the base of Mount Crumpit!

If you’re wondering, yes- you go back to being hot after the ice melts. And now you’re soaking wet, too. But in that muggy steamy way it gets here in Georgia. It’s like I told you before- this ain’t 2099! You should have used that money to get your AC fixed.

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