Yoshiro Nakamatsu aka Dr. NakaMats is a Japanese inventor who claims to hold the world record for number of inventions. 3,200. This would mean that he has far surpassed lazy folks like Thomas Edison who only racked up a mere 1,084 in his time. Dr. NakaMats claims of creation range from the ubiquitous: the floppy disk, the CD, the DVD, fuel cell, the digital watch, sauce pump, and the taxicab meter, to the ridiculous: “Cerebrex” rejuvenating armchair , “PyonPyon” spring shoes, Love Jet, and thousands more. You can peruse more self-proclaimed achievements on his website. Whether these claims prove true shouldn’t matter. We need more dreamers like Dr. NakaMats in our world. This amazing, self-inflating man even has a special seat on the Japan’s Utopian focused Happiness Realization Party.

How do such energetic ideas surface? According to an interview, “Nakamatsu described his “creativity process”, which includes listening to music and concludes with diving underwater, where he says he comes up with his best ideas and records them while underwater.” His method should prove inspiring to dublab listeners. We urge you to hop in the pool after a fulfilling dose of the dubstream and you’ll surely dream up some big ideas! Thanks to the documentary “The Invention of Dr. NakaMats” we can get a firsthand glimpse at his watery process…