Posts Tagged ‘Celebrity Patents’

Hedy Lamarr…Godmother of the Cell Phone

14th August 2009 by admin No Comments

Hedy Lamarr was was an Austrian-born American actress and scientist. Through her career as an actress, she was in more than 30 films including her biggest success as Delilah in Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah, the highest-grossing film of 1949.
Her contributions to science and technology have had a much more important and lasting impression.
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Michael Jackson’s Patent: The Secret’s in the Socks

2nd July 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Remember the video for “Smooth Criminal?”
Remember that gravity defying lean from the video?
Ever get to see it live and, noticing a lack of wires, wonder how they did it?
Long before CGI, film producers could employ techniques like the use of wires to create unreal effects on screen – props in production that where carefully obscured [...]