Much better than Stockholm... IgNobels

Here you have it:
http://improbable.com/ig/
a price for the most improbable research!

And check out some of the fantastic projects that won through the years:
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PEACE: Howard Stapleton of Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, for inventing an electromechanical teenager repellant -- a device that makes annoying high-pitched noise designed to be audible to teenagers but not to adults; and for later using that same technology to make telephone ringtones that are audible to teenagers but probably not to their teachers.
REFERENCE: http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk
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[from: http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html]