Vice: So once you had the prototype built, how’d you get the vest into stores?
Michael J. Waldron:
And of course you were wearing your prototype, right?
Sounds like the beginning of a movie Tom Hanks would make. But what department did they place it in? Do you put the music vest in electronics or clothes?
And did it take off?
So the vest is poised to dominate.
Oh, those Russians! They’re always buying sensitive electronic equipment!
I’m surprised that there wasn’t enough international demand for the vest to survive outside its home market. But let’s look to the future. Technology-wise, what do you think is next? There’s been a lot of buzz around this “wireless” fad–
So many wires. In the future, do you think robotics will become a threat?
What about solar power?
I love that idea. I mean, how do you run out of gravity? So do you think people will have music hard drives in their brain?
That would be great but there’d have to be a law against forcing your loved ones to watch it in the morning.
Very Kurzweilian. How else do you think electronics will manifest themselves in our bodies?
That’d be a little dangerous, no?
Well who’s implanting it, where’s the source?
Back at Factory X?
What else are you going to invent?
No general field?
OK, but isn’t it kind of depressing to be an inventor in our modern times, when everything cool has already been invented?
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