The most inventive 'inventions' of the year

The Ig Nobel Prize, the prize for quirky inventions that makes people " laugh ", was announced just before the Nobel Prize officially opened.

A bra turned into a toxic gas mask, a diamond made from Tequila, the study of the giant panda's waste research is three of the most bizarre awards given this year.

The Ig Nobel prizes were organized by Harvard University's famous science and humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (USA). The 2009 Ig Nobel Awards ceremony took place at Harvard University's Sanders Theater on the evening of October 1.

A women's bra that, in an emergency, can carry two gas-proof face masks that won the Ig Nobel Prize in the field of Public Health. This is the product of three inventors Elena Bodnar, Raphael Lee and Sandra Marijan from Chicago.

The bra turned into a poison gas mask.

Another Ig Nobel prize in Chemistry was awarded to three researchers at the Autonoma de Mexico University (Mexico) thanks to the invention of diamonds from Tequila .

Organizations awarded the Ig Nobel Prize for Literature to Irish police for writing more than 50 traffic tickets for a man named Prawo Jazdy, which in Polish means " driving license ".

Dr. Stephan Bollinger and colleagues at the University of Bern, Switzerland received the Ig Nobel Peace Prize with a study of an empty beer bottle that seemed to hurt his head more than a full bottle of beer in a bar fight .

Two researchers from Newcastle University in England have won the Ig Nobel prize in the field of Veterinary Medicine because they discovered that named cows produce more milk than cows without names .

The Ig Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to directors, executives and auditors of four Icelandic banks including Kaupthing Bank, Landsbanki, Glitnir Bank and Central Bank of Iceland with research on small banks having Can quickly grow into big banks and vice versa .

Inventor Elena Bodnar " shows off " a special bra at the Ig Nobel prize ceremony on October 1.

In the field of Physics, 3 American scientists Katherine K. Whitcome of the University of Cincinnati, Daniel E. Lieberman of Harvard University and Liza J. Shapiro of the University of Texas were named in the Ig Nobel awards night with the analysis. to determine why pregnant women do not fall .

3 researchers Fumiaki Taguchi, Song Guofu and Zhang Guanglei from Kitasato University in Sagamihara (Japan) have won the Ig Nobel Prize for Biology with discoveries that can reduce 90% of kitchen waste by using bacteria made from feces of giant pandas .

According to the organizers, the Ig Nobel prizes to honor achievements " first make people laugh but then make them think ". Ig Nobel is the " fake product " of the prestigious Nobel Prize announced in early October every year.