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Climate-saving mystery invention to debut at high-class dinner; Maitre d': 'no peasants, please'

ca795_Jack_mystery2.JPG I'll openly acknowledge that most groundbreaking inventions should be revealed only in the province of the super-privileged; I've never been beaten as badly and as frequently as when I rode my Segway around my ghetto-ass nabe, shouting things like, 'gaze upon your Golden God, filthy rubes!"

Still, the announcement that "a new science, a Super Material" that "will contribute in a major way to reducing climate change" will debut at a £1,000-a-head dinner in London has me both curious and wary. The super-luxe dinner (which, for that price, better have glazed baby on the menu) happens later today in London, and Al Gore is in attendance, so maybe it will be a BFD after all. Then again, that guy will fall for anything as long as there's glazed baby involved.

British Inventors' Society founder Kane Kramer wouldn't give any hints on what this "new science" is, but it better be freaking amazing. If not, I'm going to throw a £1,000-a-head dinner where the main course is Kane Kramer and all the other pompously-named jackasses in attendance.

Say, we're a science-y bunch: Anybody have any guesses/tips on what this mystery gadget of planet-saving power is? Go nuts below.

Mystery, climate-saving invention to be unveiled at swanky dinner (Engadget)

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Brandon Thacker says:

Can you say "Quad Ri Cycle".
It may also solve the obesity problem Britan and the US face.

Christopher Mims Author Profile Page says:

Looks like, surprise surprise, the whole thing was bunk:

No New Technology Touted at Fortune Forum

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