Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts

Sunday, January 2, 2022

The 1970s Political Activist Who Invented Penis Pants


Introducing Eldridge Clever, Presidential candidate, writer, political activist, a prominent early leader of the Black Panthers, oh and inventor of the penis pants.


 

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

The Shocking True Tale Of The Mad Genius Who Invented Sea-Monkeys


In a 2002 interview with Erik Lobo of Planet X magazine, Harold von Braunhut comes across as the kind of charming old guy who might detain you in conversation a bit too long if you were volunteering at a home for the aged. An inventor and entrepreneur who brought us legions of wonderfully gimmicky toys before he died, at 77, in 2003, von Braunhut holds forth about times gone by, interrupted only when his cockatoo chews at the wire connecting his hearing aid to the telephone.