You could walk in them like gym shoes, but if you rocked back on your heels the wheels emerged, turning them into roller skates. In the early 2000s, the company sold millions.
Category: Inventions and Patents
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Roger Adams Dies at 71; Invented the Rolling Sneakers Known as Heelys
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Who Is Satoshi Nakamoto? My Quest to Unmask Bitcoin’s Creator
The New York Times – Business:Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back.
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4 Takeaways From Our Search for Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s Creator
The New York Times – Business:Here’s what we found suggesting that Adam Back invented Bitcoin.
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Overlooked No More: Eleanor Abbott, the Creator of Candy Land
The New York Times – Business:She invented the game nearly 80 years ago to distract children who were suffering in the hospital during a polio outbreak.
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F.D.A. Moves to Speed Approvals for Cheaper Copycat Drugs
The agency announced moves to cut regulatory obstacles for the makers of biosimilar drugs, which are akin to generics and may help lower drug costs.
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Drug With a 30-Year Monopoly Is Target of State-Level Push to Curb Prices
In a first, Colorado will cap the price of Enbrel, an arthritis drug. Using patent tactics, the drugmaker Amgen has aggressively blocked competition for it.
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FDA OKs New Keytruda Shot for Cancer
The F.D.A. approved Merck’s injected version of its blockbuster infusion Keytruda. The company says it will be quicker and easier, but it stands to slow the adoption of cheaper competitors and increase costs by billions of dollars.
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5 Things Jeffrey Gibson Wishes He’d Made
The interdisciplinary artist Jeffrey Gibson shares five things he wishes he’d made.
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James Leprino, ‘Willy Wonka of Cheese’ Who Revolutionized Pizza, Dies at 87
He turned a small family grocery store into a mozzarella empire, producing most of the cheese for American pizza chains like Domino’s, Papa Johns and Pizza Hut.
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Elizabeth Holmes’s Partner Has a New Blood-Testing Start-Up
Billy Evans has two children with the Theranos founder, who is in prison for fraud. He’s now trying to raise money for a testing company that promises “human health optimization.”
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Overlooked No More: Beulah Henry, Inventor With an Endless Imagination
She was so prolific — reimagining things as varied as toys, typewriters, umbrellas and ice-cream makers — that she earned the nickname Lady Edison.
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Royal Asscher Marks Its 170th Anniversary in Diamond Cutting
The debut of its sixth patented cut, the Royal Asscher Emerald, was just one of the celebration events.