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Dr. NakaMats Is the World's Most Prolific Inventor
MMBK writes to share an interesting look at Dr. "NakaMats" Nakamatsu, mastermind behind a world-record 3,000 patents. The 81-year-old scientist has inventions like the "PyonPyon" spring shoes, the karaoke machine, and others. He's also at least partly to blame for things like the digital watch, the floppy disk, and CDs. "Dr. Nakamatsu harbors other ambitions too: in 2007, he took his penchant for political campaigning to a new level, becoming a candidate in the gubernatorial election in Tokyo, and the election for the Upper House. Although he failed to get a seat, Dr. NakaMats has other tricks up his sleeve. In 2005 he was awarded the Ig Nobel prize for Nutrition, for photographing and retrospectively analyzing every meal he has consumed during a period of 34 years (and counting). By the time he dies at the age of 144 (a goal he maintains with an elaborate daily ritual that rejuvenates his body and triggers his creative process), he intends to patent 6,000 inventions."
Remember, Edison once filed a patent just as a "fuck you" to Tesla and Westinghouse. That patent? The electric chair.
Edison was a craven fuck who killed people as a form of guerilla marketing. DocMakMats plays with his own poo. Oh, and Edison was dead wrong. But he's the one everyone remembers, while Tesla's tombstone has the word "unmanly" on it.
In conclusion, Edison was a certified gangsta. DocNakMats takes photos of his own shit.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.