And the IgNobel Prize goes to the creator of the bra that converts to a gas mask

Bra converts to gas-mark, creator wins IgNobel:

ENGINEERS who invented a brassiere that converts quickly into a gas mask, pathologists who determined that beer bottles can crack your skull even when empty and Irish police officers who mistakenly wrote tickets to "Driver's License" have all won "IgNobel" prizes.

Prizes also went to Zimbabwe for issuing banknotes that range in value from one Zimbabwean cent to 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollars, Mexican scientists who made diamonds out of tequila and executives of four Icelandic banks that suffered spectacular collapses.

Ireland's police won the literature prize from writing more than 50 traffic tickets to a frequent visitor and speeder named Prawo Jazdy.

The IgNobel prizes are given out by the Harvard-based humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research.

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