Making Trouble
WHO WANTS TO BE AN INVENTOR?
DON’T WORRY, NO ONE IS GOING TO STEAL YOUR SECRETS.
By Saul Griffith
FAR, FAR OUT THERE ON THE FRINGE OF society’s imagination is the backyard inventor who strikes it rich with some cunning little gizmo that improves life. You’ve seen this person portrayed by Wayne Szalinsky in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Doc Brown in Back to the Future, Bruce Wayne in Batman, and countless other fictional characters, including my favorite, Wallace, and the real brains of the operation, Gromit.
Every time Squid Labs is in the news somewhere, we receive a new batch of emails from home inventors: “Dear Sirs, I’ve invented an energy device. I need help in patenting it and prototyping it. It will revolutionize the world and ...
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