Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Weindel hypersponge
Not sure that it's a hoax, but certainly a 20 year old article in a local newspaper does not qualify as evidence of notability, especially for a technical subject where there is no guarantee that anything was ever evaluated by an expert in the subject. Delete per 
— NONE, NONE
Stance: delete
Cited policy: WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)