Inventions
Nakamatsu's patented inventions include:
- "Enerex" System for generating Hydrogen and Oxygen.
- "PyonPyon" jumping shoes with leaf springs on their soles.
- "Cerebrex" armchair, a chair that supposedly improves mental function such as calculation and thinking by cooling the head and heating the feet.
- A toilet seat lifter.
- A condom with an embedded magnet, supposedly "improving sensitivity" as "electricity is generated in the blood vessels in the female organs by Fleming's left-hand rule".
- Protective envelopes for floppy disks, and head-cleaning floppy disk.
- A CD for supposedly "enhancing brightness or sexual function".
- A cigarette like device for supposedly "activating the brain".
- A pillow preventing falling asleep while driving (an air compressor strapped to the cars headrest, forcibly feeding air to the driver).
- A peephole in a sheet of material, described as a "oneway visible shielding object".
- Spectacles in the shape of eyes, so that the user appears to wear no spectacles.
- A "Wig for self defense" — a strip and a weight are attached to a wig. The wearer swings the wig to hit an attacker.
It should be noted that patents (these or any other) do not mean that the devices actually work. Patent offices grant patents without checking that the patented device works. While a patent is usually invalid if the patented device or process does not work, this is typically only determined if the patent is challenged (which is not normally done unless the patent holder sues an alleged patent infringer).
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