Rubber Garden Shoes were the 1967 release from crackpot inventor Yurges Morrison. Shunned at the year’s ‘National Invention Expo’ for being, amongst many things, ‘too rubbery’, the product marked the end of Morrison’s inventing career.

Responsible for many invention greats, such as the ‘Lazy Lucy’ (a small tabletop device that allows diners to easily reach their desired sauce and condiments, by way of a small rotating platform) and the ‘Corkchisel’ (a sharp, handheld device, offering users a truly unique way of removing a cork from a bottle), Morrison was shocked by critics’ opinions of his Rubber Garden Shoes.

Designed with a number of ‘aerating holes’ to alleviate the foot from disgusting sweat, the Rubber Garden Shoes idea was sold on to rival footwear inventor Croc McKenzie for a paltry $10. McKenzie simply waited 40 years and added a spectrum of colour options before re-releasing the item.

It was an immediate hit. Rubber was in.

The medicinal values of fudge have been known since around 313BC. A 2Kg dose has the abilities to wipe out three common colds, taking around five minutes to do so. 1.25Kg of ginger fudge can clear up a skin rash, taking only 35 minutes to miraculously do so. If you down 0.5Kg of chocolate coated fudge, you will find those aching joints go away, in seconds, for life.

The idea of Rescue Fudge came about after Dr. Louis Campbell added some fudge to his first aid kit. While out on a trek that week, he stumbled across a fellow trekker, who had gotten lost, overshot his path, and landed in a pool of cold, slightly acidic water. He had been there for half an hour.

Dr. Campbell offered the traveller some of his fudge, an unknown concoction, which cleared the traveller of the cold he had caught, soothed his aching joints and cleared up the rash caused by the pH of the water.

Nowadays, ambulance staff, coastguards, cliff rescue teams and firefighters all carry a portion of Rescue Fudge, in case of emergency.