The Guinea-Pig-Powered Lawnmower
San Jose Mercury News piece on some of the wackier inventions coming out of Silicon Valley these days, including a padlock that uses letters instead of numbers, a magnifying glass for cellphones, a guinea-pig-powered lawnmower (which we're pretty sure was already invented on the Flintstones). The funniest part of all this is that the one of the Google ads that comes up with the story (at least when we were reading it) is a text ad for www.GuineaPigSecrets.com, which promises to teach you "Everything You Really Need To Know In Order To Rescue A Guinea Pig!" You could probably start by freeing it from that lawnmower it's been trapped in.
[Thanks, Katie]
