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How This Man Turned His Passion Into His ProfessionA resourceful inventor brings his creative concepts to life.

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This story appears in theNovember 2015issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

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Camas, Wash.-based Shane Chen was two decades into running his company, CID, when he became bored with designing electronic instruments for environmental researchers. He started toying with other inventions. Five years ago, he sold CID to devote all his time to what had been a side project called Inventist, dedicated to bringing his gadget dreams to life.

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