Nose hair featured at world's largest invention convention

More than 700 of the world's most creative minds have set up stands at the International Exhibition of Inventions to show off brainchildren ranging from heavy-duty engineering feats to wacky little gadgets like the running alarm clock that will make sure you get out of bed in the morning.

Among the simplest is artificial nose hair. . . . A wacky invention is also an e-mail analyzer to determine whether the person you meet in the chat room is not a man pretending to be a woman or the other way around.

Men who have always worried about balding may now rest easy. . . balding nose hair, that is.