IO9, the new blog about all things sci-fi from the company that also publishes Lifehacker, did a profile of an eccentric, 79-year-old, Japanese scientist known as Dr. NakaMats:

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The more I read about this guy, the more delighted I was. He has the world record for number of patents with over 3,000 patents. He claims to be the inventor of the floppy disk although the exact details, according to Wikipedia, seem to be a bit sketchy:

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Nakamatsu claims that he licensed about a dozen of his patents related to the floppy disk technology to IBM Corporation in 1979, but the details of the arrangement are confidential. A spokesman for IBM said that the company has an "ongoing relationship" with Nakamatsu, and, in another media report, said that the company owns the legal patent to the floppy disk and that it reached several nonexclusive patent agreements with Nakamatsu in the late 1970s to avoid conflicts.

Dr. NakaMats has photographed and analyzed every meal he's consumed during the past 35 years. The IO9 profile explains: "His meals are a constant rotation of 55 foods he has deemed optimal for longevity and creativity based on 35 years of documenting his own dietary habits and correlating them to inventive output." His goal is to live to be 140 years old.

Who better to live to be 140 than the guy who claims to have invented the floppy disk, fax machine, taxi meter, and a miracle machine that "can make North Korean missiles do a 180-degree U-turn and go right back to their point of origin," according to the inventor himself, that he is keeping under wraps for the time being? I love this guy! Click through to the IO9 article to at least see the pictures of him.