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."

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He also invented the first post

[Anonymous Coward]

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Hamburger Earmuffs

[Will2k_is_here]

I don't think he's invented Hamburger Earmuffs (TM) yet. He's likely still struggling with the pickle matrix.

Re:Hamburger Earmuffs

[Nick Number]

I don't think he's invented Hamburger Earmuffs (TM) yet. He's likely still struggling with the pickle matrix.

I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer. It's the smell, if there is such a thing. I feel saturated by it. I can taste your pickle and every time I do, I fear that I've somehow been infected by it.

Re:Hamburger Earmuffs

[derGoldstein]

I feel this way about /. too sometimes...

Re:Hamburger Earmuffs

[maxume]

There's really no good reason to lick your computer.

Re:Hamburger Earmuffs

[Nick Number]

You know, I know this pickle doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, Slashdot is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious.

After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss.

Re:Hamburger Earmuffs

[Sulphur]

There's really no good reason to lick your computer.

Then there will be no more of this "My computer can lick your computer"

then?

Re:Hamburger Earmuffs

[Hurricane78]

Who needs Hamburger Earmuffs, if you can lie in a cozy... let’s just say: In Soviet Russia, hamburger eats YOU!

Re:Unless he's invented

[Anonymous Coward]

A way to cap telomere's he's not going to see 144. Antioxidants can keep in-gene encoding errors low but when the telomere's unravel there's nothing we can currently do to reverse the effects.

Is there anything we can do to reverse the unnecessary apostrophes?

Re:Bah

[frosty_tsm]

I'm feeling vitriolic, so I'll start the trolling thread: Having a sheer amount of parents simply means that he's a frequent flier at the the parent office.

I don't think that's how it works; 2 is the max. However, having a sheer amount of children means he's a frequent flier of something else and not a fan of protection. :-)

Please mod

[Anonymous Coward]

this guy way up. I hate that too.

It's called a "title bar", not a "start your sentence here bar".

Re:Unless he's invented

[Gerafix]

He's Japanese, just give him some used electronics, a paper clip, and some used panties and he'll whip up a Super Fun Time Telomere Re-Raveler.

Re:Bah

[Anonymous Coward]

Having a sheer amount of parents simply means that he's a frequent flier at the the parent office.
 

There's a parent office? You mean I had the option to change my parents..?

Re:Bah

[Dishevel]

anyone who even participated in the popularization of karaoke should be tried by an international court.

Tried. Fuck that. Nuke the bastard from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Re:Unless he's invented

[Jay L]

he's not going to see 144

Man, you people complain when projects are behind schedule, you complain when projects are -ahead- of schedule... Slashdotters are never happy.

Stop whining -- it cou

[Anonymous Coward]

ld be a lot worse.

I will never forgive him

[93 Escort Wagon]

I believe there's a special place in hell reserved for the inventor of the karaoke machine. I'm pretty sure it was even mentioned in Dante's Inferno - he walked past a "reserved for..." sign just before seeing Brutus, Cassius, and Judas Iscariot.

Re:Lack of Oxygen

[derGoldstein]

Kids today are doing something completely different just prior to choking.
(if you got that reference, I'm almost as sorry for you as I am for me)

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[turing_m]

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Re:Correction

[ColdWetDog]

Edison who had an entire research and development team working for him only had 1093 patents!

However, those were the days when patents meant something. You had to walk to the patent office uphill both ways. It always snowed. You had to type your submissions.

And those funny little drawings? By hand. In the dark.