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Dr. NakaMats Is the World's Most Prolific Inventor

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the patent-troll-slayer dept.

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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  1. He also invented the first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    [Removed for patent infringement]

  2. Hamburger Earmuffs by Will2k_is_here · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    1. Re:Hamburger Earmuffs by Nick+Number · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

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      Promote proofreading. Don't mod up sloppy posts.
  3. Re:Bah by frosty_tsm · · Score: 4, Funny

    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. :-)

  4. Please mod by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    this guy way up. I hate that too.

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

  5. Stop whining -- it cou by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ld be a lot worse.

  6. You m by ean+li · · Score: 5, Funny

    ke this?