Inspiration
The patent application thanks Archie The Inventor from children’s TV series Balamory as Sam Houghton's inspiration to invent, although not for the invention itself, which Mark Hougton insists was all Sam's work. A press release by the UKIPO suggests that Wallace and Gromit also served as Sam's inspiration. Wallace and Gromit, the main characters in a series of animated films by Nick Park, front the UKIPO's "Cracking Ideas" campaign intended to get young people inventing.
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