"Iain M Churches" wrote in message
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"Keith G" wrote



Happens all the time - the guy trying to sell Workmates struggled for 14
years to get someone to buy the idea. Finally got Black and Decker to buy
it on about the third attempt. His end of the deal was a quid for every
one sold - they've sold over 40 million of them!!

Plus there must be millions of look alikes, for which the poor
man doesn't get a penny:-((

Much less OT for this group is the fact that Ray Dolby tried to
sell the idea for his "S/N stretcher" as it was then called to
both Decca and EMI. He needed serious funding to get it
off the ground. Neither company thought it was a viable
idea. EMI were working on their own "compander" which
never got further than prototype testing.



Workmates OT for this group? WTF do you think speakers are made on?