{"id":14,"date":"2006-11-27T21:01:29","date_gmt":"2006-11-28T02:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitsandpieces.valkcano.com\/?p=14"},"modified":"2006-11-27T23:37:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T04:37:42","slug":"the-rubberband-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bitsandpieces.valkcano.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"The Rubberband man."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tech Library is a <font size=\"2\">U.S. Patent and Trademark depository. One of the things I do to pass time is look up some of the ridiculous things people are coming up with&#8230;you would be surprised what gets patented. I found this gem on a list of off the wall ideas.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">A <a title=\"Rubber Band men\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&#038;Sect2=HITOFF&#038;p=1&#038;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&#038;r=1&#038;f=G&#038;l=50&#038;co1=AND&#038;d=PTXT&#038;s1=D0522914&#038;OS=D0522914&#038;RS=D0522914\">Rubber Band man<\/a>? The pages take a while to load..but worth the wait for the excruciating detail on the concept. Explore the site while you are there.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Its started a <a title=\"Rubb-Origami\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rubberrubberbandman.com\/store.html\">whole industry<\/a> apparently. Rubb-Origami. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Rubberband man\" alt=\"Rubberband man\" src=\"http:\/\/i83.photobucket.com\/albums\/j281\/valkcanoalbum\/rubberband.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><font size=\"2\"><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tech Library is a U.S. Patent and Trademark depository. One of the things I do to pass time is look up some of the ridiculous things people are coming up with&#8230;you would be surprised what gets patented. I found this gem on a list of off the wall ideas. A Rubber Band man? The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bitsandpieces.valkcano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bitsandpieces.valkcano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bitsandpieces.valkcano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bitsandpieces.valkcano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bitsandpieces.valkcano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bitsandpieces.valkcano.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bitsandpieces.valkcano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bitsandpieces.valkcano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bitsandpieces.valkcano.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}