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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."
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I don't think he's invented Hamburger Earmuffs (TM) yet. He's likely still struggling with the pickle matrix.
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.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
Nope, which is why he didn't get the seat.
Warning: TFA is a video with a summary that's got little more than what's in the submission: Naka is obsessive about his food, and wants to run for office.
I know I'm not the only one who doesn't have patience for video articles. It's like sitting in class waiting for the teacher to explain every concept at the speed of the slowest learner in class. I can read a written article in 1/5th the time it takes me to watch a video.
Besides. Video is so twentieth century.
(My lawn. You're standing on it.)
I can see the fnords!
No .. but that's OK - neither is Professor Farnsworth and he's widely respected by his employees.
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. The real question is how much of an impact his inventions have made. The storage-related inventions (like the floppy) are mostly attributed to other inventors, where he solved part of the problem, but didn't invent the whole package. Personally I wouldn't put much weight on the spring shoes (no pun intended), and anyone who even participated in the popularization of karaoke should be tried by an international court.
*pouts and crosses arms*
Entomologically speaking, the spider is not a bug, it's a feature.
A few years ago he was on the "Adam and Joe Go Tokyo" show. Here is a clip of him talking about his inventions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjuyqjXbHKw
starting sentences in your subject line the continuing them in your post. Damn is that irritating.
He's got nothing on Shampoo.
He is not necessarily the world's most prolific inventor but simply the one with the most patents. They are not the same thing despite what the patent lobby would have you believe.
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Creating simple artificial scarcity with copyright and patents on things that can be copied billions of times at minimal cost is a fundamentally stupid economic idea.
I found an article detailing this daily regiment of his. I don't know how good sleeping only 4 hours a night and getting nourishment from a powder composed of 55 essential nutrients is. Here it is: http://www.brainsturbator.com/articles/yoshiro_nakamatsu_we_salute_you/ Fascinating man.
That sounds like past tense. Yuck.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
...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
Am I going to get a Nobel prize for all of my zany OCD's too? I'd like to open with my daily organization of my shoes based on the size of the animal their leather was crafted from. I also forbid myself to have a bowel movement during the 8th day of the lunar cycle (don't ask how I regulate this). There's two right there. Scanned PDF's of the awards will be just fine. I'll append this post with the rest later (after I'm done organizing my shoes).
this guy way up. I hate that too.
It's called a "title bar", not a "start your sentence here bar".
I was trying to find your website's footer you blistering idiots !
a goal he maintains with an elaborate daily ritual that rejuvenates his body and triggers his creative process
He should apply for a process patent on that ritual.
"This post contains words, known to the State of California to cause thought. Wash brain thoroughly after reading."
...no, I can’t say I’ve used ANY of those. Ever!
Well, I think I did ride in a hydrogen-powered vehicle a couple of times.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
I could have sworn that Shampoo had him beat...or are we only considering successful inventions?
Your brain is not a computer.
World's most prolific patenter could be more accurate way to describe him. Not taking away his merit, but maybe in the past there was more people that invented more things, but as not documented or patented their inventons aren't taken into account.
Digital watches are great. They're multi-functional, cheap, accurate, low maintainable, and sturdy.
I know human factors/designer types have their diatribe about them, but they're just being whiny.
ld be a lot worse.
Now this is just weird:
How do you “trigger” an invention?
A lack of oxygen is very important.
A lack? Isn’t that dangerous?
It’s very dangerous. I get that Flash just 0.5 sec before death. I remain under the surface until this trigger comes up and I write it down with a special waterproof plexiglas writing pad I invented.
From This longer article
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
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.
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Okay, the guy is 81. I hate to rip on him too much, but it really seems like he's mostly known for submitting patents.
None of the floppy disk history that I looked up mentioned anything about him except that IBM has some deal with him to prevent a "conflict". Patent troll? The CD history I glanced through didn't mention him either. At best, I think he could say that he made some minor contribution to the CD - not that he had invented it. The video showed a bunch of his other inventions, like a magical chair that makes you more creative or something. He mentioned that a US cancer patient wanted to sit in it. And that proves what? Quack quack quack.
Then he's ragging on Edison in the video... a guy who actually invented useful shit.
Seems like a bit of a whack job with an image of himself out of proportion to what he's actually accomplished.
Why are you letting these clowns ruin our country?
When you start a message in the title bar, write a bit in the message
Tell me something...it's still "We, the people"... right?
And you are redundantly pointing out that my redundant post was redundant? Got it.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
Other articles have covered him as a nutjob who claims to have invented things which he had no hand in. He's definately a controversial figure with some controversial claims. This story sorta just took him at his word . . .
so the correct acronym when someone is being clueless would be WTFV instead of RTFA.
-- QED
ke this?
The linked is a video that takes to long to watch, read this one instead.
http://www.wishtank.org/magazine/commons/yoshiro_nakamatsu_we_salute_you1
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive
Any reason why you didn't choose a useful subject line like "Needs to cap telomeres to live that long".
Is the wacky gene associated with the longevity gene? Or is it just associated with the really smart gene?
"I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it." : Dogbert
Did he invent the flying car? No? Then, he's no good to me.
First of all, it was redundant before it was modded redundant. Replying with a statement of what it already was... yes, was redundant.
Second of all, it wasn’t “Score 3”, because I just checked the moderation history and it was never moderated up. Oopsie, did you make a typo? Awww.
Third, you reloaded the page before you wrote that? No? Then how do you know you wrote it before it was moderated redundant, hmm? (The irony in this one is simply delicious, because that’s exactly the mistake that you’re berating me for. I had no idea that 4 people had responded in the 4 minutes between the post I replied to and my reply.)
Fourth, I recognised my flaw. My post was redundant. So was yours. I’m not assigning my flaw to you, simply pointing out that you apparently have it too. LOL.
Fifth, I’m not sore.
Sixth, thanks for the chuckle.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
This guy sounds like the most prolific patent filer, not necessarily the most prolific inventor.
Is there anything we can do to reverse the unnecessary apostrophes?
the unnecessary; make necessary
"The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool" - Jane Wagner -
for this one?
144 years of checking my poo and filing patents just doesn't sound like a life worth living.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
There's an easy defense of filing it under YRO: everyone has the right to spend 144 years checking their poo and filing patents. DocNakaMats is out there every day bravely defending your right to stifle development and pick through feces. How dare you question this noble quest?
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
ht ekil ton , oN
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
You have to use the sauce pump to prime your sauce pump.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
Dude? You have a cell phone. Cut it out.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
The video is edited from the full length documentary, "The Invention of Dr. NakaMats". I recently watched it at the True/False film festival. The director said in a Q&A session after the movie that the time he spent filming Dr. Nakamatsu was the "craziest time of my life".
No; I think I’ve had about all the laughs you can give me.
Feel free to prove me wrong again, though.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
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You bastard, you
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
Someone tag this story 'goodluckwiththat'.
I am not really here right now.
"an elaborate daily ritual that rejuvenates his body and triggers his creative process"
Maybe he's under the impression that he's the only one to ever think of having one off the wrist every morning. Dear god I hope he didn't use his camera for that too, scientific journals beware.
I chuckled.
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
You need to do some reading from reputable sources, or you'll believe the crap you post. Edison made some of the inventions himself, others were made with the assistance of what we would today call technicians, still others were made under his guidance and close supervision.
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I had always thought the most prolific inventor was Pat Pending. His name is on almost everything new and innovative.
We can keep doing this all week as far as I’m concerned.
Just out of curiosity, why are you trolling me?
Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
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If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
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Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.