GUESS THE INVENTION

1. Read this inventor describing his invention and see if you can guess what it is.

I’ve been fascinated with photography since I was a kid. I used to develop my own prints and experimented with Polaroids and early video cameras. In 2002 I took my daughter on holiday to Italy. I wanted photos of us together but if you take it yourself you always end up with a head off centre. In the end, we’d wait for a passer-by who looked savvy enough to use my digital camera, then explain what we wanted usually without a common language. Then we had to deal with people walking in front of us while the photo was being taken. I just thought: “There has to be an easier way.” It took about 100 prototypes to get it right. Every pin, spring, lever and gear had to be up to the job. I wanted each one to last 20 years and be able to withstand use under the sea or in the heat of the Sahara.

GUESS THE INVENTION

1. Why did he invent it? 2. Why do you think they became so popular? 3. What problems do you think the inventor has encountered since the product has taken off?

The selfie-stick By Wayne Fromm

1. Read this inventor describing her invention and see if you can guess what it is.

It was the 1990s, and we were designing a new online language to use in text messages. Before mobile phones in Japan, we used to have pagers called Pocket Bells. They were cheap and really popular among young people, partly because they had a heart symbol. I knew that symbols absolutely had to be part of any texting service.

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1. How many do you think there are now?

Emojis By Shigetaka Kurita

1. Read this inventor describing his invention and see if you can guess what it is.

I started in kitchens when I was barely 16. My parents didn’t have much money but I found a cookery school. I spent some time in the military and then I worked for the French bakery Fauchon, and Daniel Bouloud in New York, before I opened my own bakery in Soho in 2011. Someone pointed out that we didn’t have any kind of donut on the menu. I said OK, let’s try it. But I’m French, I don’t know about donuts. Let me work with a texture I grew up with – the croissant.

GUESS THE INVENTION

1. How do you think they became so popular?

The cronut(a doughnut crossed with a croissant) By Dominique Ansel

2. Now look at the picture and guess it. What is it?

GUESS THE INVENTION

1. How useful is it?
2. What needs does it meet?
3. What is its practical application?
4. Who would invest money to develop this idea further?
5. Who would buy it?
6. How likely is it to revolutionise the world?

Edible Spoons

2. Now look at the picture and guess it. What is it?

GUESS THE INVENTION

1. How useful is it?
2. What needs does it meet?
3. What is its practical application?
4. Who would invest money to develop this idea further?
5. Who would buy it?
6. How likely is it to revolutionise the world?

Horse sneakers

2. Now look at the picture and guess it. What is it?

GUESS THE INVENTION

1. How useful is it?
2. What needs does it meet?
3. What is its practical application?
4. Who would invest money to develop this idea further?
5. Who would buy it?
6. How likely is it to revolutionise the world?

Edible beer six-pack ring

3. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap of the same line.

HORSE SNEAKERS A pair of canny _________ have launched INVENT the world’s first running trainers designed _________ for horses. SPECIFIC The _________ clip-on shoes are made from REVOLUTION shock-absorbing plastic materials and claim to make life more_________ for both horse and rider. COMFORT _________ steel shoes, these move with the horse’s hoof . LIKE and can be _________ quickly. MOVE As a result, they allow horses to _________ their STRONG tendons and ligaments.

EDIBLE BEER SIX-PACK RINGS Plastic six-pack rings kill more than a million birds and marine animals every year. They have been given an _________ and could now GRADE help feed sea life instead. The world’s first edible can rings, normally used to hold beer, are _________ made from wheat and barley, MAIN by-products of the beer-making process. The product is innovative and _________ friendly ENVIRONMENT Is is also _________ and can be eaten by animals BIODEGRADE like turtles and fish who often die as a result of ingesting plastic. It is _________ that 80% of sea turtles and ESTIMATION around 70% of seabirds are ingesting plastic, which clogs their _________ system. DIGEST

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