6 Legends of TV Inventions

There ’s not much good than a good infomercial — except maybe a really big one . But these days there ’s no better institution hotbed than basic cable television pay off computer programing . Here we break production from pitchman , and celebrate the brains behind As - Seen - On - TV .

Chia Pet

Hard as it is to imagine that one man ’s mind could be so prolific , both the Chia Pet and the Clapper were initiate by the same person . To be fair , Joseph Pedott did n’t invent them in their original Incarnation . But he ’s responsible for fine - tuning them , sublimate them from rinky dink doohickeys no one desire to rinky dink gismo that sold millions . Pedott ’s start was actuallyin advertising — which may explain why his jangle have outlived his products .

Magic Bullet

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Not a lot ’s been written about the man behind the most famous blender in the world , or he name his life ’s crowning work to sound so much like an adult miniature . But Homeland House chairman Lenny Sands holds the patents to theMagic Bulletand its attachments — include the Party Mugs .

Shake Weight

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It ’s hard to escape the implicative touch for this upper - torso toner , or its takeoff . Which come as a surprisal to the Shake Weight inventor , Johann Verheem , who set out with the childlike goal of combining the inactiveness - establish exercise equipment pioneered in the 90s with the conversant sort factor of a dumbbell . And while Verheem ’s largest contribution to companionship may at last be innuendo , he maintain that San Diego State research worker have demonstrate the Shake Weight ’s validity .

George Foreman’s Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine

As hard as it is to believe , former Heavyweight champion George Foreman did not , in fact , engineer his eponymic grille . My generation ’s dorm room salvation was invented in 1993 by oneMichael Boehm . Foreman did n’t unite the team until a year after Boehm had come up with the equipment , but was intact in helping it gather wider distribution through a party called Salton .

Jack LaLanne Power Juicer

Speaking of fame spokespeople , there are few more adorable — or more fit — than Jack LaLanne . But while I do n’t doubt LaLanne has draw more than his share of juiced goodness , all credit for the original might juicer run toDr . Norman Walker , a Scottish immigrant to the US who promote a natural foods modus vivendi as betimes as 1930 . His Norwalk Hydraulic Press Juicer is still betray today as a separate intersection , but it ’s the yield from which all other juicer have been squeeze .

Ronco Showtime Rotisserie & BBQ

Ron Popeil sack out from Ronco in 2005 , but he ’s still the unquestioned king of TV inventors . Why Popeil ? Because not only did the man much create the data formatting ( and many of its most pop convention ) whole textile , he also actually did most of the inventing . Here ’s just a few of the gadgets he can take rational ownership of since his 1954 TV entry : The Chop - type O - Matic . The Popeil Pocket Fisherman . The inner - The - Shell Egg Scrambler . Hair in a Can Spray . The Smokeless Ashtray . It ’s as though Billy Mays had moonlight as a chemical engine driver .

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