It’s tough to think about inventors without remembering dear Dr NakaMats. He claims to have invented over 3000 items – frequently while almost drowning himself – and basically thinks Thomas Edison’s an uneducated wimp who quit at 1093 inventions.
Aside from karaoke machines, NakaMats also claims to have invented floppy disks, a weird golf putter, compact disc players, digital watches, springy shoes, hydrogen-powered engines, a crazy armchair that may or may not have made some man’s cancer worse and a lot more. Sure, there’s talk that he may be a complete loon who’s just spouting lies and barely invented anything, but who cares? The man’s amusing on video. [Motherboard via Gizmodo]
Picture from NakaMats
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Vernon 'Jatsim'
Saturday, August 28, 2010 at 9:27 PMROFL…
Brendan
Sunday, August 29, 2010 at 10:56 PMI think although some of his inventions maybe a bit wacky, he deserves all the respect that he commands. After all without his invention of the floppy disk then who knows where the computer age would be. People such as Vernon should think of things like that before posting ROFL… after all what good idea has he had or patented lately?