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I remember waking early on a Saturday to watch retro cartoons. Watching Wile E Coyote try to catch the Road Runner was funny, but even in my young age, I could see that some of the product ACME sold to the Coyote were just plain crazy. Those are the thoughts I was left with, but others must have thought differently. It seems someone thought the ACME products were such a good idea that they actually brought them to market, targeting children. Now you too can own the suction cup wall-climbing apparatus (count me in for anything that lets me climb up tall buildings with only a wet suction cup) or rocket powered roller skates (because putting wheels on our feet is not dangerous enough, we need to add speed and flammable liquid) or the personal helicopter, just like Inspector Gadget’s (now there’s a dangerous product: blades whipping around over your head, spinning at super speeds.)  Some people watch Wile E Coyote strap himself to a giant rocket and say, "Why?" Inventors watch the same thing and say, "Why not?"
This is a tribute to the brave dreamers and engineers who are working hard to bring to market the kind of products previously only found in cartoons and ACME catalogs.
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