Inventor Wannabe Mugs

Early Scientific Fraud: Young Thomas Edison Tried to Pass off a Container Filled with Fireflies as an Incandescent Bulb.

'Orville, you know smoking isn't allowed on planes. No wonder we've had problems getting this crate up in the air.'

'I just invented it -- I call it the 'Doomsday Option.''

"My phone recharges with static electricity."

"Young Frankenstein"

'I've decided to centralize my operations. Everything will be in my ipad.'

"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.'

"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."

'AAAARGH!...Get it off! Whatever the hell it is...Get it off!'

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

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

Imagination

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

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

"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.'

'Reinvent yourself, and get back to us.'

The Aerial Steam Carriage

The first 'outside the box' thinker.

Open Source.