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As you walk around in this suit, small
bellows in the heels of your shoes puff air
up your trouser legs, keeping your legs
nice and cool. A small vent in your pockets
lets the air out.
A secondary air
supply goes from your heels to your
trouser waistband, blowing air into your
shirt.
Aircon 2 Jacket
http://www.engadget...y/1234000713030647/
For the upper body [darkboy115, Feb 17 2005]
(?) From 1939
http://www.buyoutfo...tles/pd_nr_031.html
"Inventer Creates The First Air Conditioned Suit Last summer was so hot that it inspired the first “air-conditioned” suit, a queer arrangement of tubes supplying a breeze through the whole costume from bellows fastened to the wearer’s shoes." [Klaatu, Feb 17 2005]
'Professor' Wilf Lunn
http://www.wilflunn.com/
[DrBob, Feb 18 2005]
puff, puff
http://www.thegreen...d-cooling-pants.php
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Nov 03 2013]
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The halfbakery software saw the "pirate" in "aspirated" and decided that this invention would be great for pirates. Aye! |
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Yarrr! There's a stiff sou'westerly a-blowin up my trousers. Reef the hem boys! Haul away! |
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When you lift your foot to take a step, fresh air comes in through a valve in the heel? |
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a walking whoopi cushion. |
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Wouldn't that lead to a trailing miasma of jocksweat? Would these pocket vents be filtered or non? |
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Arr! Bringing comfort to Shanks' Pony and, with the appliance of a little duck tape over the air vents, Inflato-Pants! |
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Could this be developed so the old gag of a jet of air lifting a woman's skirt could be self-induced? |
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[Hoping for someone to do a nice illustration....] |
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I wonder if this is how Emanuel Swedenborg first thought of the hovercraft? |
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Sounds like Frank Herbert's "Stillsuit" from Dune. |
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Will the shoes have a snorkel intake for walking trough puddles? |
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...and a filter for walking across sand. Nothing worse than knickers full of sand. |
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Nice link, Klaatu. You're not allowed to call anything queer any more, of course. |
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I remember watching "shorts" at the Saturday matinees at the Sellwood theatre and this guy would always be on. He "invented" things like the air-cpnditioned suit and pull-down shades for eating grapefruit without getting juice in your face. His name was "Professor [something]". He also invented a "dunker" for your morning donut, to dunk your donut in your coffee. |
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...and, he was rather "queer". |
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I like this. It would hopefully eliminate the static cling that causes my work pants to attach irritatingly to my legs. [+] |
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It's like that picture of Marilyn Monroe, except of a man instead. |
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[tekym] wouldn't fabric softner fix that? |
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Klaatu, would that be Wilf Lunn perchance? (link) |
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[DrBob] I remember Wilf Lunn as a youngish guy on Vision On in the 70's - I doubt he was around in 1939! |
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As Henry walks down the corridor at work, his every step is accompanied by a slight inflation and deflation of his collateral buttock, and a soft "hisss hisss" sound. The only explanation we can think of - Henry is passing gas. |
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1939? I was responding to the anno about Saturday matinees. I somehow doubt that Klaatu was going to the pictures in 1939. |
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[Sabriand] - I've tried, it doesn't work. Not for long, anyway. |
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calling one's own idea ingenious [-] |
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(Eight and a half years after this idea was posted I feel compelled to admit that the title - and in fact the whole idea - was hastily contrived to shoehorn the word 'pirate' into the title without actually using that word (so as to (a) appear clever, and (b) avoid contributing to a passing fashion for pirate-themed ideas). This was during a brief period on the Halfbakery in which ideas with the word 'pirate' in their title would have the 'for' and 'against' votes shown as 'arr' and 'narr'.) |
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