The Invention of Dr. NakamatsKaspar Astrup Schröder

Meet Dr. Nakamats: scientist and inventor owning more than 3,300 patents, an absolute world record with which he leaves Thomas Edison, number two, way behind him. In his home country, Japan, the land of the Cindogu (useless inventions), Nakamats is a cult figure with many admirers. We owe are thanks to Dr. Nakamats for, among other things, the arousing Love Jet Spray, the PyonPyon spring shoes and the Dr. Nakamats Brain Drink, but he also is, according to himself (and partly confirmed by IBM by means of the patents), the inventor of the floppy disk. The spry 80-year-old is still filled with new ideas, which he prefers to gain under water (for which he designed an under-water-notebook). He is determined to reach the age of 144 and therefore pays considerable attention to his nourishment: for 34 years already he takes a picture of every one of his meals. By combining these data with his blood values, he encountered a new brilliant invention: the ultimate food additive. He even won the Ig Noble Prize with it, a kind of parody on the real Noble Prize which awards prizes to remarkable, rather than useful scientific research.



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Directed by Kaspar Astrup Schröder
Denemarken
2009 60 min.
Japans
Subtitles: English

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Kaspar Astrup Schröder

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Mette Heide

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