14 DAY TRIAL // Attention, all lazy people, the self-making bed has just been invented! Mornings will never be the same again. Selfy the EasyBed, as its Italian inventor named it, can make itself at a push of a button. Fasteners located on each side, and moving on metals bars, spread the sheet over the bed with Swiss clock precision every time, no matter how messy the bed was before, or how thick the sheet is. As soon as the sheet is spread over the bed, the two fasteners automatically retract towards the lower end of the bed.
Just make sure nobody is still in it while you're telling your bed to clean itself up. The device was presented at the 36th edition of the International Exhibition of Inventions that took place in Geneva. More than 700 participants presenting 1,000 new inventions subscribed for the exhibition which ended on Sunday.
"I was thinking of people with diseases when inventing the bed, but also because I'm lazy myself," said the Italian inventor, Enrico Berruti, Selfy's father.
Among some of the wackiest inventions we can find the artificial nose hair, clocks on wheels that move around the room ringing until the person sleeping finally gets out of bed, blankets with sleeves and gloves for those that want to enjoy a good book outside on a bench, during a cold winter day, or even the e-mail analyzer which determines whether the pretty girl you're talking on chat is really a woman or a man in disguise.
The artificial nose hair was specially developed by US physician Gengsheng Sun, in order to protect people from inhaling polluting and allergy causing particles. "Most people do not have enough nose hair. It's comfortable to wear and cheap," said Sun. He also recognizes that he originally got the idea because his wife was suffering from heavy allergies, but didn't want to take medication.
The device consists of two coiled pipe cleaners connected with each other through a wire blocking pollen and dust. Alternatively, the artificial nose hair can be used to absorb drugs without the use of injections, such as insulin for people suffering from diabetes, for example.
Yet another machine eliminated the odor of rotten food and bacteria by simply drying it. By doing so, food waste could be turned into solid fuel at home, without the need of specialized companies to do so. Drying up 400 grams of waste could take between two and eight hours.
Dianne Cheong Lee Mei, inventor of the e-mail analyzer, says that her computer program filters the e-mails in concordance with the number of words, exclamation marks, emotions and complements to determine whether the sender is a male or a female, and vice versa. Lee Mei revealed that the basis of the program relies on the fact that women are much more emotional than men, but she refused to discuss any further details.