Celebrity patents.. (I knew there was something odd about Penn Gilette)

[SoCalDem]

http://www.ironicsans.com/2007/01/celebrity_patents.html



Celebrity Patents

Harry Houdini patent Last month, Google introduced its new Patent Search feature (in beta), allowing users to dig through 7 million US patents from 1790 to mid-1996. On-line patent searching has already been possible through the US Patent and Trademark Office website, but Google makes it fast and easy using their already familiar interface.

So, inspired by Google’s new easy-to-use patent search, I decided to dig up some of the celebrity patents that have been issued over the years. The following 18 20 patents are all by celebrities not usually known for being inventors. You can follow the links to the actual patents to learn more about each one.

click the link to see them... there are some DOOZIES

[flvegan]

1. "cheeky derriere relief"!!

:rofl:

[redqueen]

2. Wasn't Hedy Lamarr's useful?

I thought I remembered reading something about that at some point...

[SoCalDem]

3. I think she may have gotten a nobel prize for it..and it was indeed a help

in decoding Nazi messages, if I recall the story..

so much for the dumb actress myth

[HERVEPA]

4. That's Hedley!

[redqueen]

5. You know she sued over that?

Hah...

[redqueen]

6. I was thinking about this, actually...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

"she also co-invented an early form of spread spectrum, a key to modern wireless communication"