Science and art are constantly inspiring one another. Movies, in particular, are famous and infamous for their ability to show us fantastic worlds and inventions that could not exist in our world that has to abide by the laws of physics—and the technology of the present.
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U.S. Patent No. 3,000,000 was granted to Dr. Kenneth R. Eldredge of Palo Alto, California, for an automatic reading system for utilities.
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The TV reporter was astonished when Clooney told her he uses a Flowbee to cut his hair. He said he had been using the device—a vacuum cleaner attachment that comes with 10 plastic spacers—for 22 years. Was he serious?
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Plantar fasciitis took Jim Cooper from being a world-class distance runner to being unable to walk. Now both his toes and a career as an inventor are inclined upward.
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Don’t think for a minute that extreme inventions are limited to the present.
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With MLB’s Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) technology, an official in the press box monitors a laptop running a system that electronically determines the call.
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Invented by Beth Fynbo of Oronoco, Minnesota, the Busy Baby Mat holds utensils and playthings that will not land on the floor or in your lap.
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