J. Mike O'Dwyer

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James Michael O'Dwyer is an inventor who grew up in Muttaburra, Queensland, Australia.

He only completed grade 12 education, but went on to be a manager at Woolworths Limited [1] before his inventions were able to provide an income.

O'Dwyer spent 15 years developing a rapid-fire gun prototype called Metal Storm that uses stacked projectiles. Metal storm can fire up to 1,000,000 rounds per minute, or 16,000 rounds per second. The technology is being commercialised by a company also called Metal Storm and was declared by Guinness Book of Records that the weapons are the world's most intelligent and fastest firearms.[2]

An American company Breeze Technology Holdings has in the past attempted to commercialise another of his inventions - air-cooled sneakers.[3][4]

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  1. ^ Case Studies: Metal Storm Ltd. Department of State Development, Government of Queensland (September 28, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-02-16.
  2. ^ Jordan Baker. "Lethal weapon", The Age, March 26, 2004. Retrieved on 2007-02-16. 
  3. ^ Breeze Technology, Inc. : Business Plan. Retrieved on 2007-02-16.
  4. ^ US Patent 5860225 : Self-ventilating footwear 
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