Not a lot of technological innovations stem from necessity, despite the adage of necessity being the mother of invention. Then again, to put this adage into perspective, a lot of inventors absolutely believe some inventions are necessary for them. Or are necessarily evil, whichever. When it comes to some inventions, sometimes no “necessity” is actually factored into the equation.

A fire breathing wheelchair is certainly right up there with the USB powered cup warmer and the body-laptop interface, or in other words, seemingly useless, only thing is, this fire-breathing contraption is actually a bit more…. impressive than your usual run-of-the-mill useless invention. In fact, this can almost join the ranks of the RinSpeed Squba Underwater car – made just for the reason that the creator could. This “wheelchair” was also made because the creator had access to some spare golf-cart parts, an old Marine helicopter seat, and of course a flame thrower he had lying around for the off-chance that aliens from Mars vulnerable only to fire would invade one day and take away his precious spare golf cart spare parts. (But really, where did he get a flame thrower, I wonder?)

A lot of people will surely pull up their noses until it’s touching their neatly arched eyebrows in disdain, and they’d be right in taking an aloof stance to this invention, this serves absolutely no practical function, and in fact is a very inappropriate application of available parts to a most inappropriate group of people (grandma who hasn’t driven in years behind the wheel of an armored golf-cart conversion with the ability to burn up anything that it bumps into? Oh no.) On the other hand, the geeks in the room and anyone who appreciates a little over-the-top geekery, like in a 54 million candlepower flashlight, will forgive the creator and marvel at the craziness of it all while maintaining some form of the same stiff aloofness of our more practical fellow-men: “Uh yeah, that’s a pretty useless piece of crap that’s pretty pointless and childish..but uh (sotto voce) I wouldn’t mind having one in my garage, you know? Yeah.