We chatted between lectures and, on winter mornings when my fingers were too cold to make roll-ups, he offered me his Marlboros.
It has already been used to make roll-up fabric keyboards for handheld computers, to control a heated jacket made by Innovative Sports, and to incorporate iPod controls into ski jackets made by Spyder, Kenpo and Westcomb.
A decade ago, he was the director of the condensed-matter-physics department at Bell Labs, in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he worked on developing organic electronics that could be used to make roll-up-able televisions and computer screens.
It is because of them that I have been able to make Rolls-Royces".
But she was taught only to cook rice, and to make rolls with a machine.
Goldman Sachs is believed to be handling a sale that is expected to make Rolls-Royce between £300 million and £500 million.
Diane Sawyer (whose house is down the road; I'm sure I could arrange a run-in) flew in a sushi chef from Manhattan to teach a few of us locals how to make rolls.
If you don't have the time to make rolls, you can easily layer cabbage and meat mixture in a casserole dish.
Ultimately the aim was always to make rock 'n' roll music".
"It's not like selling baked beans," You don't have a factory to make rock 'n' roll.
