9 Absurd Inventions You (Probably) Won't See on Shark Tank
Part-Time Genius
iHeartPodcasts and Kaleidoscope
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.8 | Welcome to part-time genius, the production of I-Heart Radio. |
| 0:16.4 | Guess what, Will? |
| 0:17.6 | What's that, Mango? |
| 0:18.6 | So, you know my family loves going for hikes, right? Definitely. I mean, the rest of my family. Right, right. I was going to say, I didn't want to call you out. Yeah, I'm more of an indoor cat and my house is full of outdoor cats, but we haven't exactly been able to get out for hikes this month. Yeah, I was thinking about you guys just this morning on this. |
| 0:37.8 | Like, I imagine it is pretty tough traveling out from Brooklyn right now, isn't it? |
| 0:42.3 | Yeah, and Lizzie and I are pretending to be teachers all day, and I can't tell you how |
| 0:46.4 | terrible our homeschool is, but I actually do miss getting out into nature. So this week, |
| 0:52.5 | I spent some time hunting for a solution. |
| 0:55.1 | And the best thing I could find was this greenhouse helmet. A greenhouse helmet. So is that |
| 1:00.7 | like a VR thing or what? No, it is much worse. So the greenhouse helmet is this fully enclosed |
| 1:08.7 | anti-fog dome that you fasten around your head. |
| 1:12.6 | And inside this plexiglass helmet, there are multiple shelves where you can place your favorite small plants. |
| 1:18.3 | Full disclosure, I don't think anyone has actually made one of these things. |
| 1:21.6 | This all just comes from a patent from 1986. |
| 1:24.7 | But in the diagram, and I'm going to post this to Instagram because it's so good, |
| 1:29.2 | it shows a person with a goldfish bowl over his head, and it's got a tiny potted cacti on one of |
| 1:34.5 | the shelves, which is a pretty bold choice considering how close it would be to your face. |
| 1:40.0 | So why would you do this, I guess is the question I want to know. Yeah, I guess according to the |
| 1:45.1 | creators, not only would the wearable greenhouse do wonders to improve your mood. It also supplies |
| 1:49.9 | you with this private reserve of fresh oxygen. So the idea is as you exhale, the plants are |
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