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...American boy who supports his family with a job at the Kingston Falls Bank and wins respect by standing up to the filthy-rich Mrs. Deagle (Polly Holliday). Preston Sturges, the movies' screw-bailer supreme, would have appreciated Billy's dad Rand (Hoyt Axton), an absent-minded inventor whose contraptions range from the Bathroom Buddy Shaving Kit to the Peltzer Peeler Juicer, which ingests oranges and splatters their pulp against the kitchen wall in Gremlins' first glint of far-out domestic violence...
While traveling abroad, devout Muslims must still say prayers five times a day while facing the holy city of Mecca. But a long trip with frequent stops could make them lose their bearings and point them in the wrong direction for worship. To prevent such a problem, Dallas Inventor George Shrime has applied science to religion and designed an electronic prayer guide. It points the way toward Mecca from any of 200 locations, beeps at worship time and displays the opening verses of the call to prayer on a liquid-crystal screen...
...knew a man trying to raise $50,000 for a game called Pong," said Lawrence J. Udell, an inventor and the president of the National Congress of Inventor Organizations. "I said why would people play a game on TV when they could watch TV? Well, Pong became Atari, and he sold out for millions and millions and millions. You, too, with your idea can become independently wealthy. Inventing is the last opportunity an individual has to become a millionaire...
...Ninety-five percent of all successful inventions are financed by friends and neighbors," said Inventor McCracken. "Friends and neighbors." The dissident on this line of logic was Inventor Rabinow, who said, "Be prepared to lose your friends and neighbors. There are two empty golden thrones in heaven still waiting for the first two partners who died and still liked each other. I hate partnerships." Rabinow's suggestion was simply, "Don't spend more time than you can afford to spend because you will lose...
Some tinkerers in the audience murmured, "So what else is new?" and some, at the end of the conference, left saying they had enjoyed themselves but they had not learned anything. Some said the best part was finding out that so many other inventors are constitutionally like themselves. Inventing is nothing more than making life a little easier, getting rid of petty annoyances. Marketing, however, is another thing entirely. "Marketing is atypical of the inventor's temperament," said John Zeitlow Jr. of Massachusetts, who evidently has not researched his Edison...