{"id":2553,"date":"2004-08-31T05:41:01","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T09:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/08\/31\/running-out-of-things-to-invent\/"},"modified":"2004-08-31T05:41:01","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T09:41:01","slug":"running-out-of-things-to-invent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/08\/31\/running-out-of-things-to-invent\/","title":{"rendered":"Running Out of Things to Invent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a3763'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/sushii.jpg\" width=\"410\" height=\"308\"><\/p>\n<p>A German company has invented a pair of glasses that come apart to<br \/>\n        double as chopsticks.<br \/>\n      The &#8216;sushi specs&#8217; have detachable arms that can be used to eat traditional<br \/>\n      Japanese food.<br \/>\n      Those who aren&#8217;t adept at using chopsticks can have forks attached as an<br \/>\n      alternative.<\/p>\n<p>      Designer of the glasses Ralph Anderl says he came up with the idea after<br \/>\n      noticing that eating on the go was becoming increasingly popular.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The idea came from the common need for cutlery at any time. Nowadays<br \/>\n      people don&#8217;t have time to stop and eat lunch in a restaurant, they want<br \/>\n      to eat<br \/>\n      while they&#8217;re walking to their next job,&quot; said Mr Anderl.<\/p>\n<p><em>And we thought we were supposed to eat sushi with our FINGERS. We<br \/>\n          are tempted to try the fork variety, but are worried about stabbing<br \/>\n          ourselves<br \/>\n          repeatedly<br \/>\n          in<br \/>\n          the<br \/>\n          ear&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#000000\">article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_1085298.html\">Ananova<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German company has invented a pair of glasses that come apart to double as chopsticks. The &#8216;sushi specs&#8217; have detachable arms that can be used to eat traditional Japanese food. Those who aren&#8217;t adept at using chopsticks can have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/08\/31\/running-out-of-things-to-invent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}