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FastPencil Premiere. Gadget Nation
Gadget Nation. A Journey Through the Eccentric World of Invention. Steve Greenberg
Dedication
Introduction
On the Go
Mo-Bowl™ Mobile Pet Water Bowl
Help Alerter™
Cast Skate™
Hold-a-Phone™
Take It Pocket™
Drink Deputy™/Travel Mate™/Drink Mate™
Diaperbridge®
Re-Pillable Card®
Mother’s Third Arm™
Air Guardian™
OrthoTote™
Take-Out-Time-Out® Mat
Roadside Message Board™
Walk-O-Long™
Umbrella Article Holder™
Shoulder Dolly®
EasyDown™
At Play
Pick Up Hoops™
Sportbinox™
Stout’s BackSaver Grip®
Going-Going Crazy® Game
Trangleball®
shootAndstar Rebounder™
SwingSrite™
Pohol™
Scope Mates®
Boomwhackers®
Pulse Clock™
HanuClaus Hat™
Harness Play Pack™ / Picnic Party Cloths™
Panic Mouse®
Electronics
Clocky®
BrightFeet Lighted Slippers™
BOB™
Channel Surfer™
“Illum”™-Gobo Illuminated Car, Truck and SUV Lights
Rat Zapper™
Enotrab™ Optical Alert Stand
Backlit Paper Cutter™ / Hover Pad & Bench™ / Sea Stones™
World System Clock™
The InfoCube™
Core Sound Trees™
Peeping Thomas™
Compact Disc Eraser™
What Goes In…
Conedoms®
Cup-a-Cake®
E-Z Lift™ Turkey Transport
Marshmallow Chef Sticks™
Octodog™
Grandpa Witmer’s Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Mixer™ Crank
Cookie Stacker™
Mac & Cool™ and Potty Mitts™
Bottle Sling™
Cozycooler™
Motorized Ice Cream Cone™
My Pet FatSM
…Must Come Out
Aquariass™
Johnny-Light™
Plunger Holder™
The Talking Toilet Paper Dispenser™
Zeets™ Magical Seats
GasBGon®
Shower Master™
Shower Tan™
Easy Bath Elderly Bath Apparatus™
1–2 Flush
Tilt-A-Roll™
Flat-D™
Toothbrush Holder™
Bird Diapers™
You At Your Best
HeadBlade®
Toenail Trimmer™
ActionCaps™
Strapper™
Pak Kap™
Smittens™
At Rest
Headwarmer® Pillowcase
1st Class Sleeper®
The Slanket®
Boo-Boo Blankies®
CozyHold™
Vidstone®
Sun-Cap™ Floating Sun Shield
KosherLamp™
Kling Tut™
SkyRest®
CandleWand™
SnuggleTite™ Slumber Bag
At Home
Flipple
Healthy Hands
Workout Wake Up
SpiderStick™
PurrFect Opener™
CordWrapUp™
CDwalltile™
Skamper-Ramp®
Tilt-A-Fan™
Holy Cow Cleaner™
Key-P-Out™
Mailbox Post Saver™
Mop Flops™
My Tuffet™
Lazy S. Lazy Susans™
Appliance Slide™
Gel-eez® Wrist Rests and Mousepads / Golden Grips® Cutlery
WordLock™
Get your gadget going
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To my Dad, Lazarus,
who taught me to
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Inspired by travel coffee mugs, which are well-designed to prevent spills, Rich developed a design to fit in an ordinary car cup holder and assembled his own prototypes, which he and his wife test drove in their Jeep Wrangler along their half-mile-long bumpy driveway. “But nothing worked well. As an engineer, I wanted a product that would work perfectly.”
Using his engineering skills, Rich was able to build prototypes quickly, easily, and inexpensively. After setting up a wooden platform test bed to test his designs, Rich mounted a video camera at very close range to record the tests, and then watched the video frame by frame to find the key to a no-spill design.
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