This week we’re looking at body piercing technology, from a medical piercing device of the 1950s to an interesting 21st Century use for facial piercings.

The second one is especially full of repetition, so is very boring to put you to sleep…until you think about what the actual invention is. (Get through this one and this episode title will all make sense.)

For a preview of a later episode, check out the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization's annual page for absurd patents:

https://www.wipo.int/en/web/patents/2025-patent-picks

(Let me know if there's one you'd like to hear!

patentsomnia@gmail.com

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