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Title: 20 Questions with Technologist and Entrepreneurial Inventor, Dennis Fountaine

By: Sydney Carver, Tech Writers.carver@techologylabs.comHave you ever wondered how new products and technologies are created? Where does the idea come from and how does it become an actual product that we purchase and use? I have always been curious about the process of invention, so I reached out to a well-known Technologist and Inventor, Dennis Fountaine, nominated to be one of America’s Top 100 Inventors. Dennis agreed to answer my usual 20 questions.Sydney: Hi Dennis, how did you start your inventing career?Dennis: Hi Sydney, thanks for contacting me. Funny story, (kids DO NOT try this at home) when I was 8 years old, all the kids in my neighborhood had weekend Lemonade Stands, I wanted to do something innovative and compete on a different level, so I took an old piece of wood, hammered two nails through it about 6 inches apart and then cut off the female end of an old electrical extension cord, stripped the wires and put one end around the bottom of one nail and did the same on the other nail – I plugged in my contraption and stuck a hot dog between the two nails and started cooking and selling hot dogs in my driveway. I made 20 times as much as the kids selling lemonade until my parents came home and discovered that I had invented a live electrical killing machine because anyone who accidentally touched both nails at the same time would potentially be electrocuted. So there went my Hot Dog career, but I learned a lot about inventing and being an entrepreneur just from that one electrifying experience.Sydney: OMG! Your parents must have been in “shock”!Dennis: Cute Sydney, yes, let’s just say that my electricity privileges were suspended for a while.Sydney: What was your next big successful invention?Dennis: I had a Video Production Company and was creating and pro...

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