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- dagnabbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+61I heard Britney Spears filed for patent infringement. The case is expected to be wide open to the public.
- rarkai, on 10/12/2007, -3/+54I don't see Uwe Boll's patent on terrible movies in there anywhere.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+44Or Paris Hilton's patent on invisible underwear.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43Tom Cruise also has a patent: #8,793,104, Method and apparatus for disguising homosexuality.
- fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26its a Van Diagram :)
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Penn Jillette invented a bathtub masturbation device?....eww
- Bokista, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Britney Spears is certainly going to get her patent request for the loose-meat roast beef sandwich.
- grandpajesus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19+1 for the diagram in van halen's patent (eddie is totally thrashing)
- wendelgee2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Wait...Heddy Lamarr's patent ain't just some secret decoder ring bo-*****.
from Wikipedia:
Lamarr's frequency-hopping idea served as the basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology used in devices ranging from cordless telephones to WiFi Internet connections. The technology in particular that is often attributed to her and George Antheil is CDMA[3]. - fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18he didnt invent that .. thats a scientology secret!
- FearlessFreep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15"I don't see Uwe Boll's patent on terrible movies in there anywhere."
Ed Wood and Roger Corman have the prior art - rarkai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16..except that he does look like one...
- jpatch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Show me a Jessica Simpson patent, and I'll digg.
- drstock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Skateboard legend Rodney Mullen has a patent for skateboard trucks: http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT6443471&id=qDoKAAAAEBAJ&d
- benwaterworth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12you mean michael jackson doesn't really do that? :o
that's a lifetime of attempting to imitate it gone to waste. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11it's Hedley! Hedley!
- miller9time, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah there was an article about this in Playboy a couple of months ago. It said he patented more than one "self stimulation" product. I'd search for the article but I'm at work and I don't think "Penn playboy sex toy patent article" would yield SFW results.
- FearlessFreep, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"In fact, forget the platinum teeth"
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm really glad the author of this article included Hedy Lamarr. She was a remarkably intelligent and productive woman, despite being publicly perceived as just another silver-screen beauty.
She was married to a Nazi arms dealer, drugged him to escape to England, became a prominent film actress in both Europe and America, then invented the concept of spread-spectrum frequency hopping in an effort to help the Allies win WWII. What was the response of the military to this technology? They scoffed, saying that she could better help the war effort more by using her celebrity to sell war bonds. Her invention was not further developed for another 20+ years.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamar
http://www.inventions.org/culture/female/lamarr.html - LowandSilent, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Getting patented.
- M3hul, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Yoda? Dugg because George Lucas patents the obvious, a toy.
- plasticated, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Penn Jillette is my personal hero.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Hedy Lamarr is the world's earliest hot geekette. :)
The device she described in the patent was basically a way to hide transmissions from the enemy during wartime by changing frequencies rapidly and simultaneously on both the sending and receiving ends. Nowadays, this is commonly called frequency hopping spread spectrum, and is used in lots of systems. All cell phone communication (not just CDMA) uses it. So does WiFi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Give me lots of idle time, and Hollywood money and I could invent too.....
eh who am I kidding. I'd spend all the money and time on whoores and platinum teeth. - profOblivion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5He didn't. And that's called copyright.
- merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If you really want to know, read the patent. There's probably something more to it.
- markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4You thought of the stimulation-bath, right?
- Bytor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dugg for Hedys contribution. Decades ahead of her time. Brilliant actually.
Wow. - LowandSilent, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4When you look at Penn Jillette's patent filing as described by Google:
a seat for supporting said female user in a seated position, said seat having a generally horizontal portion and a rearwardly positioned seatback;
a circulation pump having an inlet connected to said tub for drawing water from said tub, and an outlet connected to said tub for discharging said drawn water back to said tub; and
a discharge nozzle located within said tub and connected to said outlet, said discharge nozzle being located within said horizontal portion of said seat and being adapted to discharge water rearwardly with respect to said horizontal portion from said outlet directly to said stimulation points of said female user when said female user is seated within said seat.
Well said, Google. Well said. - ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6uhhh ... jamie lee curtis ... infant garment ... isn't that already called a "diaper," and has been around for hundreds of years in some form or another?
- Bob042, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5The closet didn't have a prior patent?
- FearlessFreep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dunno, but Harpo seemed to have some good compression technology working...
- diggirl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I went back and actually clicked on the "infant garmant" and it looks like her patent is for a moisture-proof pocket that holds baby wipes. Interesting, but unless the wipes are sealed really well, they'll dry out. Maybe that's why it never caught on?
- ironicsans, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The patent itself says "Albert Rale Herman, Encino, and Herbert Zeppo Marx, Palm Springs..."
- vkiperman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Oh behave, baby.
- blapierre, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You are wrong, copyright lasts much much longer than a patent.
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"In our patent Hedy and I attempted to better elucidate our mechanism by explaining that certain parts of it worked like the fundamental mechanism of a player piano. Here, undoubted, we made our mistake. The reverend and brass-headed gentlemen in Washington who examined our invention read no further than the words 'player piano. 'My god,' I can see them saying, 'we shall put a player piano in a torpedo.'"
--George Antheil, co-inventor with Hedy Lamarr - LLLSecretChimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@merreborn,
You're thinking of Gummo. - coldfusion1970, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I guess you must be a girl then?
- grandwazzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So, it was Zeppo Marx who invented hard-disk drive?
- ROFISH, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6http://duggmirror.com
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Google for JillJet, which is what he called it, I think.
- chillin411, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My father worked in the retail fishing industry for 20 odd years, and had the pleasure (?) of Gary Burghoff actually coming in to try and sell his contraption. He never bought one, it had too many things that only hindered it rather than attracted anything, and just turned it into a cluttered chum bag.
I now offer a place for any and all jokes referring to the phrase "chum bag". - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Everyone knows zeppo doesn't really count as a Marx anyway. Harpo, Chico and Groucho. That's it. Only 3.
:p - jbus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah and if Penn was going to develop a masturbation device, you would think it would be for his little "friend" Teller.
- iwannagofast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1DAM... I had a few great ideas (that I thought were original) that other people have already patented.
There goes getting rich quick and quiting my job - rarkai, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@rtphokie: I am glad i am not the only one that thought that when i saw the name.
- moneyries, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1that is so cool.
- fishbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I don't know if she donated the patent (kinda doubt it), but I do know that nothing was done with her invention until the 1960s -- after the patent had expired.
- SelfAbortion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I think he has the patent on "how to pwn a n00b movie-critic in the ring."
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