‘Star Trek’-Inspired Gizmo Could Win Its Inventors $9 Million

Basil Harris is an emergency-room physician who holds five degrees. Yes, five, including a doctorate in engineering.

Back in grade school, Harris and his older brothers fashioned a cotton-candy machine from a soup pot and the motor of the family’s lawn mower. Their invention produced a coarse, crunchy confection and second-? degree burns on Harris’ hand and face.

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