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Inventors Gone Mad

By on October 10, 2012 in News

The Augusta Chronicle:

Mad Scientists features amateur inventors, weekend scientists and eccentric engineers who make outrageous “toys” out of everyday products, according to a news release. During the show, host John Bowler challenges them to improve their original invention within 48 hours.

Krug, the owner of Krug Technologies LLC by day, said he’s always out in his garage tinkering with items in his spare time. Among his inventions, Krug has transformed his minivan into a jet-powered drag racer.

“I’ve always been creative with mechanical things,” Krug said. “It started ever since I was little. My dad had a business buying and selling used cars, and some of the cars he would take to the junkyard. I would go to the junkyard with him, and people would be throwing out all kinds of interesting things. To this day, I have fun going into the junkyard and finding things people have thrown away and getting them working again.”

As a child, Krug said, he made his own toys, such as a go-kart with a motor from an old Ford vehicle.

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  • http://n.a. Cindy Hawkins

    Having worked in the past with troubled teens, I discovered something that should be obvious: many of them had huge imaginations, often put to negative, not positive ends. Anyway, once in class, for a kick we did a “Blue Sky Session”, with the kids, and had them come up with outrageous inventions, nothing nixed, nothing prohibited. Did THEY devise some cool things! One young man decided that what the world needed was a “CAN’T OPENER..” which boosted your self esteem and made you feel you could achieve anything! He even made a quirky, funny sketch, then shyly showed it to the other kids. Of course it was not a real ‘thing’, but exercises such as this are invaluable in getting young people with potential to see that their ideas can go somewhere, and bear fruit. A ‘can’t opener’. Amazing….eh?

  • http://www.microsourcing.com/ MicroSourcing

    It’s a great platform for innovative ideas that could potentially translate into something bigger and more viable. It also helps that the mechanics require young inventors to stick with everyday gadgets because it helps keep their ideas grounded.

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