January 25, 2008

Garage Inventors

Click here to view a slideshowAll over the country, amazing science is happening without institutional or government funding. Matt Cavnar talked to inventors in garages, basements, a Quonset hut, even NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab to see what home inventors are doing in the 21st century.


Frank Polifka's "Tornado in a Can:"

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Posted by: Constance Wiggins January 27, 2008 - 01:33PM
Berkeley, CA

I don't understand why solid waste companies haven't hooked into the Windhexe?

It looks like the perfect answer. What's the downside?

[2]
Posted by: mick wiggins January 28, 2008 - 02:41PM
berkeley CA

Excellent question--- and I want one, too.

[3]
Posted by: Jim Conniff January 29, 2008 - 06:50PM
Eastern Seaboard of USA.

I knew our grandson would find not just the Next Big Thing but the Next Big Idea to Get in on the Ground Floor with. Bet he has already sewed it up tight.

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