Oklahoma inventors wait for approval

 
BY SONYA COLBERG
Published: January 4, 2010

The girls at a Hooters restaurant used to gather around the table where musician Mike McCraw and his drafter buddy met weekly to work out plans for McCraw’s invention.

"So, what is it?” they’d ask.

"It’s the eraser on a No. 2 pencil,” McCraw would tell them.

McCraw said the inventor of a gel-filled teething ring cautioned him early on to be coy about his actual inve...


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