I have a personal vendetta only because in ~2005 I won a housewares competition for a rotating surge protector (which included a sketch of nearly the exact pivot power design even though that wound up not being the final concept) and applied to get a utility patent on it through the university which said there was no commercial merit to it.
Then a few year later, Ben Kaufman (Man child CEO of Quirky at the time) sat on stage talking about how “Jake” invented the pivot power strip and handed him a novelty check for a few hundred thousand dollars. Valuable life lesson for me to not let good ideas pass you by, if only I had any since then 
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