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Endlessly tinkering away in his garage, Carl Sarno has dreamed up everything from spill-proof paint lids to hemorrhoid applicators and mine detonators. But for this ultimate old-school innovator, the thrill lies not in the outcome but in the inventing its

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Nov 26, 2013
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