Nothing whets the appetite like a heap of gnawed, discarded bones – if you’re a vulture or a hyena, that is. Civilized carnivores like us prefer to keep the skeletal remains of our former food away from our current food, like keeping your crazy ex away from your main squeeze. And no food presents such a waste-disposal problem as those delicious, spicy, bony hot wings.

It never would have occurred to us, but somebody looked at the hot-wings question and thought, “What America needs is more bulky, single-purpose plastic stuff.” Hence the SnacDaddy, as seen on the PBS reality series Everyday Edisons. We’re all about supporting our fellow geeks and their crazy dreams of revolutionizing everyday life, so you just might catch our ugly mugs on an upcoming episode, yapping about the SnacDaddy. We’d like to say we’re helping great inventors launch rockets into space or design cars that get 1,000 MPG, but the biggest innovation we could find was these two pieces of molded plastic.

To snac Daddy-style, just go like this: put the wings in the grooves on top of the platter. Eat them at your leisure, accompanied by the condiments and televised sporting events of your choice. Then put the bone into the hole (now, now, this is a family web site), and presto! You’re free to snack without being haunted by a Pol Pot-esque pile of your victims’ remains!

You'll receive one black SnacDaddy and one red one with your order, doubling the amount of time you can go without having to wash one. Oh, and to maximize the benefits of the SnacDaddy, make sure you're properly dressed while using.

If Edison could see all this, we’re pretty sure he’d be rolling over in his grave, assuming his bones have as much room to move as these chicken bones do in their spacious SnacDaddy sarcophagus. Yes, as inventions go, it might be a little less world-altering than electric lighting or sound recording. But good luck storing your wingbones in a lightbulb.

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