ABC's American Inventor - Episode 4 Season 2 Live Blog and Show Recap

Does anyone know offhand how many more weeks the show is on and when the final decision will be made?  You may have mentioned it previously, but I don't recall.

I look forward to reading the recap and your input on the inventions each week.  I know that you were experiencing bad weather last night night....but you are missing 1 NY finalist.  Deryk Artioli, 11.  Yeah, he is my son and ABC's editing did a great job of cutting out a bunch of  what  the invention is about.  I know that you and others have been so down on kids appearing on this show, that I was interested to see your comments when a kid did make it as a finalist and didn't leave crying!

The only reason they would even consider doing a third season is because the show is dirt cheap to produce for the summer season. One $1 million prize. Twelve $50,000 prizes. That's $1.6 million. Plus salaries for the judges, maybe another $100,000 per week. Renting out audition venues, another $30,000 or so per week. That fills up about 11 hours of programming. A decent drama would have cost $1 million per hour to produce. "Traveler" cost a lot more and isn't doing very well in the ratings.

This is not a new idea - I read a scifi book that had the same idea.

The user has a bracelet with their info and preference. When two bracelets match they let the wearers kown.

"You only get to spend around $39,000 of the 50 grand. I know from being a semi-finalist last year!" I thought I read on the forums that you don't get to spend any money at all. You get $50,000 of services rendered, done by a design company of Fremantle's choice. Not a penny of it goes into the inventor's sweaty little palms.

I thought the Claw was by far the best invention we've seen so far!  Its innovative and has broad market appeal.  I'm glad the judges finally chose someone for their invention and not because they have a sob story.

They didn't look homosexual to me, just maybe a little bicyclual.

George Foreman is going to be on Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight--I guess he couldn't say "no" to him, either.

The question is... hwo to post something online so they a contestant or show can get a public message.

This invention was the last to be on TV tonight, July 18th a Houson finalist. This person was a young deaf man that is trying to invent a portable device, that a person can talk into and it turns voice into text. Then the deaf person types into and it shows text so the hearing person understands what he wants to say.  It was a great way for the deaf world to start communicating with our world.

My comment to this is... It would be WONDERFUL for stroke patients also.

They are looking at it from a deaf world, where as stroke patients that cannot keep up with someone talking and doesn't understand or remember long enough to get home... and sometimes, the person can read well, but understanding verbal communications has slower processing times. it then becomes a personal assistant of sorts. It's a FABULOUS idea and I'd like to broaden thier horizons on all of who is could help.

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