Future Inventor Gifts

'I guess there'll always be a gap between science and technology.'

Paranoid scientists.

'Actually it was quite simple once I solved the cold fusion problem.'

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

"Google car."

The people making the Vasimr engine ripped off my idea. What? How? When I was a kid, I had the idea of getting to Mars in just 40 days. The Vasimr engine uses radio waves to ionize and heat propellant to do just that. That's pretty impressive. How'd you know that radio waves could ionize and heat propellant when you were just a kid? Not that part. Just the "40 days" part. Less impressive.

Young Galileo Galilei.

'Is that really what you do at work Dad? I thought you were an evil genius plotting to take over the World...'

'The E.S.P. phone: "Hi! I'm on the train."

Imagination

Tech High School - Startups

"Dear Santa, I just want one simple thing for Christmas this year. Your schematic for building an aerodynamic time-traveling toy sleigh."

"Coal used to come in hard pieces, like rocks."

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

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

"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."

"When I grow up, I'm writing the Great American App."

"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!'

"I'll bet all of Albert Einstein's teachers felt like idiots for giving him bad grades too."

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

'It was bound to happen - they're beginning to think like binary computers.'

Deep in the heart of the RAND think tank, the world's greatest scientists would gather to brainstorm Batman's fight sounds.

"I thought you were making a coffee table?"

"What's your project for the science fair, Arnold?"

Small child building a large contraption from junk

'I'm sure that you are highly qualified. It's just that we're not hiring anyone at the third grade level.'

'Our little guy is busy with homework, or if we're lucky, some sort of social network start-up.'

Patent Attorney (invisible man)

"I'm starting my own delivery service. Is there anything you want to borrow from my Dad?!"

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

"Your imagination is running wild. That's not a tiny drone sent to spy on us. That's just a fly."

"You were right. Building an online business empire is even more fun than playing games."

'Because of the mess, 'Mr. Potato Salad-Head' never took off.'

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