Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Inventors

Inventors are a breed apart, a special kind of people who imagine what does not yet exist. Here are some of our favorites: Segway inventor Dean Kamen, Forrest Bird who invented the respirator, and Woody Norris, creator of the Air Scooter, amongst others.

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Dean Kamen

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I really don't need anything else as far as technology has progressed. I just want to make something for someone else so that I can get what I want. Toys. A lab. A garage. A boat. A house. A plane. A steak. A girlfriend.
Posted by infosplashbaboon on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 10:51 PM ET
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I'm taking an Innovation Business Management course at Lane Community College Business Center in Eugene, Oregon and it's the best training I've had to get my inventions off the ground. I'd share the link with you, but such is not allowed.
Posted by derphyn on Wed, Jun 18, 2008 11:34 PM ET
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Your ads work well. They repeat over and over, and rearely with a hitch in the presentation. The main video generally works poorly, if at all. Frequently it does not play at all, following the clear ad. When it does work, iIt stops repeatedly, and the sound often cuts out. I use Comcast cable. The video quality is set to 1200 and shows that it detects a speed of 26XX. Your service is unuseable.
Posted by pat_nelis_59 on Thu, Jun 19, 2008 6:00 AM ET
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We have been making Atmospheric Water generators for several years but no one seems to make and control their own drinking water source. making water from AIR seems to be the way to go when ground water is becoming scarce but bottled water maust have a gretare attraction for them. JBatt
Posted by battagliajohn on Thu, Jun 19, 2008 8:33 AM ET
5
why should you even bother to tell us to watch when you know you've not posted there the clips?
Posted by joy_nakijjoba on Thu, Jun 19, 2008 12:23 PM ET
6
inventions are like evolution. 99% of inventions are usless. like 99% of all evolutionary mutations are either usless are bad. but that 1% moves us forward.
Posted by myownturtle on Thu, Jun 19, 2008 11:11 PM ET
7
sen. mccain and sen. craig have invented the bathroom shuffle
Posted by ed.bock on Fri, Jun 20, 2008 12:36 AM ET
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Why do you make us see the same ad over and over again? I think you have good content on here but am not going to waste my time seeing more than one or two videos if I am forced to see the same ad each time I click on a video clip. I expect better from Yahoo!
Posted by nickperez on Fri, Jun 20, 2008 12:51 AM ET
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Please! Yahoo! is able to bring us these inventor's stories because they have taken the interesting subject to businesses that are willing to pay for the cost to store them on Yahoo! servers, pay for the cost to send the files out on the Internet, and to fund more interesting Inventors, and their inventions! . . . and YOU are complaining?!!
Posted by claudius2u on Fri, Jun 20, 2008 5:59 AM ET
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Are there any inventors focused on using waste fuels, such as wood, and other solids, to power small generators - 25 _ 1000 KW - reading this? If you want a broader support and base of like minds to work with, please post your response here! Also, email claudius2u-at-yahoo-.-com There's a lot of new tools and advances in this important small scale power generator sector today.
Posted by claudius2u on Fri, Jun 20, 2008 6:09 AM ET

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