Featured Reader Blog: Invention of the Day

A few days ago, we told you that we want to read your blog. Dozens of you responded with your URLs and I've added them into our feed reader. Over the coming weeks and months, I'll be highlighting a few of the best blogs run by your fellow readers.

Up first is Patrick Andrews' Invention of the Day. Literally every day, he posts a new invention. Some are serious. Some are silly. All of them are deeply original and forward thinking. In a blog world that lives on recycled content, Patrick is out there creating new material and idea. So far, he's up to 390 inventions, all tagged as feasible, possible, or whimsical.

Here's a recent favorite:

#386: Appeteyesers

Filed under: Feasible - 15 Dec 2007 It’s a fact that food is more attractive (and will be judged tastier) if it is illuminated in the right way. This causes retailers to spend large amounts of cash in lighting fruit, meat and bread in stores (to say nothing of all those colour enhancing additives)...

Each knife and fork would be equipped with a small lamp and a variably-coloured filter. The lamps would act as miniature, widebeam floodlights. Each item of cutlery might be set with a slightly different hue and intensity in order that a more interesting mix of appetising colours could be played on the meal.

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