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And I knew in my gut that Wacko did not have those crazy moonwalker superpowers! It was all in the shoes... oh he got me right there :)]]>Jan 4th 2007 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/celebrity-patents-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/celebrity-patents-unearthed/Jan 5th 2007 10:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/celebrity-patents-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/celebrity-patents-unearthed/Jan 4th 2007 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/celebrity-patents-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/celebrity-patents-unearthed/Jan 17th 2007 1:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/celebrity-patents-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/celebrity-patents-unearthed/
It seemed like such an obvious thing -- though that may be because Eddie Van Halen just made it look natural. Glad he owns the patent. Very talented man. Did a lot to completely change the sound of electric guitar in the '80s and beyond.

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It's interesting to note the Design Patents vs. the regular patents. The ash tray and the yoda figure protect the design from copy-cats, but aren't the typical technical-innovation patents.]]>Jan 4th 2007 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/celebrity-patents-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/celebrity-patents-unearthed/
The idea is that by using a constantly changing carrier frequency, a radio signal is both undetectable and hard to jam as well (by any gear that operates on a fixed frequency). (Not covered in the patent is a means for keeping the transmitter and receiver in perfect synch. This would have to wait for the phase-locked loop.)]]>Jan 4th 2007 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/celebrity-patents-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/celebrity-patents-unearthed/Jan 5th 2007 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/celebrity-patents-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/04/celebrity-patents-unearthed/
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