摄影小品:发明者和他们的发明

摄影小品:发明者和他们的发明 《时代周刊》摄影师通过镜头展示发明者和他们的发明物。 1968年，弗瑞在3M公司的同事，发明了一种粘性较弱的粘合剂，但没有人知道这种粘合剂能做 什么。几年之后，他在赞美诗中使用一些小纸片作书签，在教堂里这些小纸片总是不停的掉出来， 这让弗瑞感觉非常挫败。于是，他想到粘性较弱的粘合剂可能适用于将小纸片临时粘合在一起。 威廉是一位受过训的内科医生，她的灵感来源于他还是婴儿的女儿“她喜爱她的奶嘴，但是会不 断吞进吐出”，她说，“这是自然天性，大多数小孩子会将自己的舌头向前推动，使得奶嘴从嘴 里掉出来。但他们又很想要奶嘴，他们找不到合适的方式取代它，因此我开始将奶嘴缝制在毛绒 玩具上。”于是，威廉开始按照孩子轻松抱着玩具的尺寸，来毛绒玩具奶嘴。当孩子长大一 点时，奶嘴可以换成牙环，或者彻底拿走他，给孩子留下一个柔软的玩偶。 高尔特这样诉说她灵感来源：“这看起来像一个幼儿车，折叠起来像野营椅，把它装进包中，你 就可以随身携带了。我的灵感来源于去农贸市场搬运非常多的东西。我浑身上下都是背包，过后 我的背部总是受伤。我环顾四周，看到每个人都在使用那种老太太金属车，然而，我想我还没有 老到像推着金属车子的老太太的那种地步。但是，我看到也有些人使用小一点的红色四轮车，我 觉得他们非常可爱，但四轮车太大了，装不进我的汽车中。因此我想，必须想个办法轻松把车子 折叠起来，那么你就可以把他们放进你的汽车中了。 洛伊尔解释道，“Wilcraft是为方便冰钓的人设计的，即可移动又安全时尚。这辆车安装起来 就像夏季的渔船： 电力设备、冰钻、午餐和饮料。一旦你在冰面上，整齐的地钻一排冰洞都由 Wilcraft内部完成，随后按一个双向开关把船体拖放到冰面上。 密封性可以防止冷空气进入舱 内。洛伊尔还有个市场定位， 这还可以用于救援人员快速安全的救出掉入薄冰中的人。 这项发明的灵感来源于德兰尼的妻子，”尼撒让我给她一款迷你蹦床作为礼物，在大约用了一周 后，她说，它坏了。然后她问我是否可以把它悬挂起来设计成一款视频游戏。我认为这应该很容 易，但结果要比我想象的复杂很多。德兰尼示他正在尝试申请专利。当前的游戏控制器是用坚 固的塑料片制成，而不是在原型版本照片上要采用的木质乐高（乐高是种木制拼接玩具）。 帕戈托的模型是树脂的，用于保护和隐藏堆积在桌后或者是家庭娱乐系统之后纠缠在一起的零乱 电线。他将进军发明世界，帕戈托说，“梦想和决心不仅仅是针对年轻人而言的，我和我的合伙 人都是“老家伙”了。我64岁，我的合伙人唐64岁，约翰68岁，我们相互认识了50多年。他们说绝不会和朋友或者亲戚一起经商的，但我们这么做了，而且从中获益匪浅。 纽约鬼屋方面的专利律师——加维，拥有一项根据温度感应的屋顶通风专利。它可根据温度的变 化自动开启或关闭，而不需凭借电力。迄今为止，加维还没有把他的发明推向市场。 A reflective device engineered to pick up light from multiple angles, Quick-finders are affixed by a homeowner 快速探查者是个从多角度接受光线的反射器，它应被房主帖在卧室门 外的地板上。当消防人员在浓浓烟雾中匍匐前行的时候，卡罗兰说，“这种情况下，我们就可以 拿着反射器确定卧室在哪里，而不是找壁橱、洗手间、浴室或者厨房”，卡罗兰是在一次模拟训 练期间突发灵感。“我们匍匐爬行在一间烟雾弥漫的房间，去搜寻其中的婴儿，但我们找不到卧 室，其实卧室就在离我两英尺的地方。我想这必须有种更好的解决方式，灵感就突然而至。” Inventors and Their Inventions - Photo Essays William Walsh The Green Box, an environmentally friendly pizza container The top half of the Green Box Pizza is perforated to split into four plates, while the bottom half folds up into a container for storing leftovers. Inventor Walsh traces the idea of it to his college days, when he and his housemates would eat pizza and nobody used plates. One time, he tore up a pizza box and handed out improvised plates. His housemates were amazed, but he dismissed it. "I thought it was standard operating procedure," he says. Ten years later, people were similarly amazed when he tore up a pizza box at a friend's daughter's birthday party. Now equipped with the wisdom of a degree in business, he decided to start his own company. Art Fry Post-It Notes In 1968, Fry's co-worker at 3M invented a not-very-sticky glue that nobody knew what to do with. A few years later, Fry was in church, frustrated that the little pieces of paper he stuck in his hymnal as bookmarks kept falling out and he realized that a not-very-sticky glue could be used to make small pieces of paper temporarily stay in place. Monica Williams Pacimals, a huggable pacifier For Williams, a physician by training, inspiration started with her own infant daughter. "She loved her pacifier but kept spitting it out," she says. "That's natural, most children will thrust their tongue forward, which means the pacifier comes out. But they still want the pacifier and they don't have the coordination to replace it. So I started by just sewing the pacifier onto a bunch of stuffed animals." Williams then designed a stuffed animal pacifier in a size that's easy for a child to hold. As the child gets older, the pacifier can be converted to a teething ring and then removed completely, leaving the child with a comforting doll. Tami Galt Fold-it & Go Portable Wagon Galt describes her inspiration: "It's like a children's wagon only it folds up like a camping chair and fits in a bag so you can take it with you. My idea came from going to the farmer's market and having too much to carry. My back always hurt afterwards, and I'd be full of bundles. I looked around and everybody was using these old lady wire carts and I figured I would never be old enough to look like a little old lady with a wire cart. But I saw a few people with little red wagons and I thought those looked cute, but I couldn't get them into my car so I thought there must be a way to make them fold down easier so you could fit them in your car." Tom Roering Wilcraft, an amphibious ice fishing vehicle Roering explains, "The Wilcraft is designed to bring a fisherman onto the ice in a very convenient, mobile and safe fashion. It's set up much like a summer fishing boat: electronics in place, ice auger, lunch, beverages. Once you're on the ice, you drill your holes, line up the holes that are inside the Wilcraft, and press a couple switches to drop the hull onto the ice. That seals out the airflow coming into your shelter." Roering also markets a version that's used by rescue personnel to safely and quickly retrieve people who fall through thin ice. James Delaney Trampoline video game controller Delaney's wife is the origin of his idea: "Nyssa asked me to get her a mini trampoline as a gift. After about a week of using it, she said it was getting boring. Then she asked if it could be hooked up to a video game. I figured that this would be easy. It turned out to be a little harder than I imagined." Delaney is presently attempting to obtain a patent. The current version of the controller relies on a solid piece of plastic instead of LEGO, which is employed in the prototype version pictured above. Tony Pagoto Wiremate, a wire management system Pagoto's molded resin boxes organize, protect and conceal the cluttered tangle of wires that accumulate behind desks and home entertainment systems. Of his foray into the world of inventions, Pagoto says, "Dreams and determination aren't only for the young. My partners and I are 'older guys'. I am 64 and my partners Don and John are 64 and 68. We have known each other for over 50 years. They say never to go into business with friends and relatives, but we have done that and have benefited greatly from it." Christopher B. Garvey Temperature responsive roof vent A patent attorney in Amityville, New York, Garvey holds a patent for a temperature-responsive roof vent. It automatically opens and closes in response to temperature changes, without the use of electricity. Thus far, Garvey has yet to bring his invention to market. Joe Carolan Quick-Finders, a guidance system for rescue personnel A reflective device engineered to pick up light from multiple angles, Quick-finders are affixed by a homeowner to the baseboards outside bedroom doors. That way, says Carolan, when a fire fighter is crawling through smoke "we can pick up the reflectivity and know where the bedroom is instead of going into the closet, the bathroom, or the kitchen." Carolan got his idea during a training drill. "We were crawling through a smoke-filled building looking for a child and we couldn't find the bedroom. And it was 2 feet in front of me. I figured out there had to be a better way. The a-ha moment came right then."