Just when things couldn't get weirder in the world, inventors Elena Bodnar, Raphael Lee and Sandra Marijan of Chicago won the Public Health award for their odd invention of a woman's bra which in an emergency can double as a pair of gas masks.
The patent states that each of the bra's cup sections is fitted with a filter device, meaning the wearer can whip it off, and detach each section to fit it over the face.
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