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Article: The Weasel
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 23, 1996
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Many chaps occasionally fancy themselves as inventors, along
the lines of Tintin's Professor Calculus or the Famous Five's Uncle
Question. Staring into the distance, we muse on electronic gizmos
that will make our fortune or perpetual-motion machines to
transform the lot of humanity.
Most of our chimeras, thank goodness, stay exactly that. But at
the Great British Innovations and Inventions Fair, held at the
Barbican the other day, there was a large gathering of boffins and
entrepreneurs who had pushed their pipe dreams as far as building a
prototype and, in a few cases, even to the production line.
A random sampling of stands produced a rich mix of creative
imagination and perhaps ...