Aspiring Inventor Pillows

"My pension plan has always been to invent something and get rich fast, but now it's winning the lottery."

'Sounds great, honey. Excuse me wile I go call a bankruptcy attorney.'

"I think I might be on to something, but every time I get close; this happens."

It's taken two years work and ALL our savings, are you sure we will make millions from a Squash Ball Heater?

"Young Frankenstein"

"There's smart phones and smart cars, so why can't there be smart rooms that clean themselves?"

'Mom, Dad! Look what I created in lab today!'

Billy, can you deliver your show 'n tell this time without the fog machine?

"I thought you were making a coffee table?"

Small child building a large contraption from junk

'The wheel was easy, the owner's manual is hard!'

Ideas Ahead of their Time

Patent Attorney (invisible man)

'Mom, this is my new best friend -- I built him in computer class.'

Not thinking BIG enough: Nickel & Dime Bank.

"I'm trying to create a hologram of myself. If I'm successful, I'll never have to attend school, go to the dentist or go anywhere else that's boring again."

"Knapsack? It's a solar-powered, bluetooth, Wi-Fi, self-charging, two shoulder GenPak with smartphone charger and GPS."

FRY's FAMILY - Young Tom was always fiddling around with bits of machinery.

'Don't push your luck Simkins with that alleged glove stretcher!'

Imagination

"I got an 'A' for my anti-gravity science project!"

"He's my school project for science class."

"I'm making pink lemonade!"

The Idea of America.

Mook's regret after inventing fire.

Computerized Dollhouse.

'You keep turning them out and I'll dig a parking garage.'

Baby reaching food using building blocks.

'Of course she can talk - She INVENTED talking.'

"Young man! You turn the gravity back on this instant!!"

'I was just rubbing sticks together for fun -- I didn't realize I was doing basic research.'

The Aerial Steam Carriage

Open Source.

The first 'outside the box' thinker.

Prehistoric son going "Baroooom...Barooom!" on dad's stone wheel