But she accepts criticism as "part of trying to create progress; you get called crazy, like any inventor".
It makes you wonder, what will those crazy South Korean inventors think of next?
The spiky-haired David Belle, meanwhile, who is often credited as the inventor of parkour, the crazy-beautiful French-born physical discipline he and Mr. Raffaelli practice here, is sui generis and probably part monkey.
Frequently portrayed on television or in movies as crazy eccentrics or evil geniuses, many inventors are just ordinary people who have confronted a problem and want to try to solve it, Mr. Molella said.
"It was just kind of a crazy project,"says Hine, the co-inventor of the Wave Glider, who served as Liquid Robotics' first chief executive and is now the company's chief technical officer.
"I'm basically an inventor, but if you tell people that, you're crazy," he said, sitting in his front yard, which is filled with plants and a shopping cart stuffed with compost.
And finally… in another example of people watching way too many superhero movies, British amateur inventor Colin Furze has put together a pair of crazy-strong magnetic shoes that actually allow the wearer to walk in the ceiling.
British American inventor.
Inventor and businesswoman.
