Elena Bodnar's Emergency Bra Converts Into a Gas Mask

Posted on October 9, 2010

Ukrainian-born scientist Elena Bodnar won the Ig Nobel prize for Public Health for the Emergency Bra, a bra that can convert into a gas mask. The bra can provide a gas mask for the person wearing the bra and one other person. Elena says it takes "Five seconds to remove, convert and apply your own mask. Twenty seconds to decide which lucky man you're going to save."

Elena demonstrated the device at the awards ceremony with the help of Paul Krugman and two Nobel laureates. Take a look:

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