WEEKLY WHINE

Freedom to innovate

Goodyear is reportedly working on tires that don't need air. As usual, this report has inspired some thinking here at GoobNet world headquarters. Here are some other products we'd like to see:

• Inkless pens
• 3-D paper
• Smokeless cigarettes
• Wireless paper clips
• Pageless books
• Soleless shoes
• Clothless shirts
• Legless chairs
• Wallless rooms
• Non-stick tape
• Abridged telephone books
• Unsharpened knives
• Lightless desk lamps
• Engineless rockets
• Bladeless fans
• Vertical couches
• Horizontal fire poles
• Fixed slide rules
• Analogue to analogue converters