We’ve got a few announcements to make this week re: awesome awards for inventors. More on that shortly. In the interim, check out this video from Motherboard TV about the world’s most prolific inventor.  Yoshiro Nakamatsu, better known as Dr. NakaMats has over 3000 patents. If that isn’t impressive enough, things he made up include floppy disks, CDs, DVDs, and the karaoke machine. However, he won’t settle with that. He also invents ways TO invent! Like cutting off the circulation to his brain until he almost dies. Not too shabby for a young man of 82 years.
Watch Dr. NakaMats: Patently Strange here:

Are you a 30 year-old male with the physical building skills to design inventions and create amazing gadgets?

If so, you are not me. In addition, you may be perfect for the cast of a new engineering TV show that aims to solve occupational and domestic problems for everyday people. The creators are look for candidates with big ideas and even bigger personalities — someone with a wry sense of humor and the passion to overcome engineering challenges.

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Hey, kids in grades 5-8, use rubber bands to invent something new and you may win a trip to Akron, OH!! Not a big enough carrot, you say? Totally understandable. How about some prize money to go with that trip!? That’s right, $15,000 in prizes will be given out to winners of the 2010 Rubber Band Contest for Young Inventors, presented by the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society, The Akron Global Polymer Academy, and The University of Akron. Deadline for entries is February 10, 2010. Looks simple enough to enroll so give it a shot! Here are descriptions of last year’s winners .