and why he says fine wine is best served from a blender. >> i am at intellectual ventures with nathan myhrvoldtion lab that nathan co- founded in 2009. here scientists are designing laser guns to zap mosquitoes, and climate control. >> do you see yourself as a modern-day thomas edison? >> i am hoping to do something slightly different. edison's labs were really about one guy, thomas edison. what i am trying to do is create an environment and company that is about lots of inventors. i am not on every patent. i am not the inventor here. >> but this place is not just about inventing. patents are at the core of the business. he has amassed so much intellectual property that the press sometimes calls him a patent troll. >> some people say this is unfair, nathan is out there acquiring all these patents on everything. how can i create anything when i have to pay a heavy fee to a company like intellectual ventures because they have the patent on it? >> there are companies that have gotten used to not paying. they have gotten used to a situation where a university owns that or a little start up owns it

. ♪ >> meet nathan myhrvold, a >> meet nathan myhrvold, a legendary innovator and former chief technology at microsoft who trades in big ideas. now he is bringing his curiosity to the kitchen, and cooking will never be the same. welcome to intellectual ventures, an invention lab north of seattle where nathan likes to work and play. he is a polymath who has studied under stephen hawking. that is the brain he brings to the kitchen. >> ultimately our whole approach is about loving food and loving the process of how you take that food and do with it something that is really going to be amazing. >> for nathan, amazing food is that which is subject to rigorous scientific testing. he published his discoveries in a six volume bible of moderate -- modernist cuisine last year. it cost $625, and so far he has sold 45,000 copies. >> why did you decide to write a cook book? >> naivetÉ. it took five years and 2,400 pages. i >> doesn't it weigh -- >> 40 pounds. and my favorite statistic is in you will and one copy there is four pounds of ink. an >> but he is not satisfied. his team is now testing a stac