Top 10 Celebrity Inventors  byncoles   August 03, 2011 at 7:00AM
 |  Views: 19,830 Just because you're filthy rich and famous and
in the public eye doesn't mean you don't have a mind full of
brilliant ideas that could change the world, or at least warrant
the issue of a patent.  10. Michael Jackson – Anti-Gravity Shoes
Source: U.S. Patent Office  U.S. Patent Number: 5,255,452  The
late King of Pop is credited with co-inventing a device that
made him appear to defy gravity while performing one of his
signature dance moves. The move, where Jackson leans dangerously
forward without falling over, first appeared in the music video
for Smooth Criminal.  Jackson and his two co-inventors applied
for a patent in 1992 for "a system for allowing a shoe wearer to
lean forward beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a
specially designed pair of shoes which will engage with a hitch
member movably projectable through a stage surface." (Gosh,
patents are so wordy). Jackson's special shoe would lock into
the stage,