Dog mess necklace and invisible undershirtis Germany losing its innovative edge?

By Laura Roberts Published: 1:36PM GMT 02 March 2010

Photo: REUTERS

The inventions, that were some-more Mr Bean than James Bond, were displayed at the CeBIT record traffic satisfactory in Berlin - the greatest in the world.

Amongst them was the invisible undershirt whose contriver - a former word clerk declared Mr Schmidt - said: ""You can"t see it underneath the white shirt - it"s skin phony so it"s invisible."

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Karl Friedrich Lenser, an additional inventor, showed off a necklace done of dog poo done from his jack russell, Charlie.

He said: "I saw when it was in the x-ray that it becomes hard. It becomes pleasing and it is similar to a jewel.

"People regularly have a bent to be individual. If they see it they wish to have it. I am certain it will turn a fashion."

Scientists have warned Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, in a new inform that Germany"s ageing race has led to a default of resourceful spirit.

While Germany still spends some-more on inventions than Britain it is right away outflanked by China.

Knut Blind, highbrow of Innovation Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Management at the Berlin University of Technology, who wrote the report, told the Today programme: "This is positively a big plea since inventions are routinely constructed by people up to 40 or 50."

Karlheinz Brandenburg, one of the pioneers of the MP3 player, pronounced Germany needs to take some-more risks.

He claimed that American institutions, quite those on the west coast, are some-more ready to behind innovative ideas.