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&i8_risposta3=Because he sold the idea to someone else.&i8_risposta2=Because the design is illegal.&i8_risposta1=Because an article was published before he registered the idea.&i7_risposta3=The life-unchanging inventions.&i7_risposta2=None of the inventions.&i7_risposta1=The life-changing inventions.&i6_risposta3=He has no idea.&i6_risposta2=Subconsciously from a TV programme he watched when he was a child.&i6_risposta1=He dreamt about it.&i5_risposta3=He taught himself.&i5_risposta2=A friend taught him.&i5_risposta1=He went to classes.&i4_risposta3=He bought them from a shop.&i4_risposta2=Robin got someone else to build them.&i4_risposta1=Robin Southgate built them himself.&i3_risposta3=It gets the information from the temperature.&i3_risposta2=It gets the information from the internet.&i3_risposta1=It gets the information from the radio.&i2_risposta3=It toasts bread.&i2_risposta2=It toasts bread and forecasts the weather at the same time.&i2_risposta1=It doesn't toast bread.&nitem=8&i8_hint=If an idea becomes public, anyone can use it.&i8_cvalue=1&i8_nrisposte=3&i8_domanda=Why is Robin facing a patent battle for his idea?&i7_hint=A weather-toaster is not a life-changing invetion in the same way that a wheelchair is.&i7_cvalue=3&i7_nrisposte=3&i7_domanda=At Robin's college, whose invention received the most attention?&i6_hint=He is not sure how he got the idea, but he thinks he may have been affected 'subliminally' when he was a child.&i6_cvalue=2&i6_nrisposte=3&i6_domanda=Where did he get his idea for the toaster from?&i5_hint=He used a book and it took him most of the year.&i5_cvalue=3&i5_nrisposte=3&i5_domanda=How did the inventor learn the computer language he needed to build the weather toaster?&i4_hint=Robin says he built them 'from scratch' which means he started from the beginning himself.&i4_cvalue=1&i4_nrisposte=3&i4_domanda=Who built all the electronics for the toaster?&i3_hint=Does it rely only on electricty, or something else as well?&i3_cvalue=2&i3_nrisposte=3&i3_domanda=How does the weather-toaster work?&i2_hint=It has two functions.&i2_cvalue=2&i2_nrisposte=3&i2_domanda=What does the weather-toaster actually do?&i1_hint=Find out what the word 'branded' means and you will have the answer.&i1_cvalue=1&i1_risposta3=It will be used as a communication tool.&i1_risposta2=It will be only be used for traditional purposes.&i1_risposta1=It will be toasted with a company name.&i1_nrisposte=3&i1_domanda=What does the writer predict might happen to toast in the future?&