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Celebrities are inventors too
January 04, 2007
Inventors come from all walks of life, so it shouldn't be a surprise that celebrities are inventors also. One blogger used the new Google patent search to search for famous names as inventors of patents. Click here for the list of patents he discovered. Figures from a few of my favorites after the jump.
Click on the images see the full patent (and the inventor).
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