Google Exposes Patents To The World

This is absolutely unbelieveable.  Google has launched Google Patent Search and it is incredibly addictive.  I just ran a search for 'advertising' and could spend all day in here looking at all of the crazy gadgets that people have patented.

Here is an image from a patent on, as the lawyers say it:

A method of advertising on a motor vehicle having a substantially transparent window including steps of providing a holographic film with a holographic image, and adhering the holographic film to the window, where the holographic image is substantially transparent to an operator of the motor vehicle from within the motor vehicle so that operation of the motor vehicle is not impeded, but the holographic image is visible to an observer outside the motor vehicle