There are great business ideas, and then there are half-baked ideas. This is where halfbakery.com comes into play. It’s a website that is solely dedicated to ridiculous, improbable, and naturally – hilarious business ideas.

To give you a sense of what the website is like (because, you know, visiting a link yourself is hard) take a look at this invention, entitled, “evil laugh activated hand dryer.” It works as follows: “instead of a button or infrared sensor, people sometimes rub their hands together in the airstream, activate this hand dryer by laughing evilly.” Look! There are even pretty pictures,

Now, this is my kind of humour!

To give the website some credit though, there are some serious ideas. For example, the “Panic PIN“ idea, which is ranked as the top idea on the website, works by “entering [an] alternate ATM PIN number [to summon] help.” The idea is that if you are forced to withdraw cash, you can alert the police without the robber knowing.

Look around, you might even find a solid business idea to stea- err, I mean, examine.

Peter Kao