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Ok, another wunderkind story. At the age of 11: * Knows how to program Arduino * knows how to write Android Apps * has a working understanding of chemistry
by thowarray 9y ago
Ok, another wunderkind story. At the age of 11:
* Knows how to program Arduino
* knows how to write Android Apps
* has a working understanding of chemistry
* is able to infuse carbon nanotubes with chlorine and build a disposable sensor from this.
* understands marketing enough to promote her product via the app stores (there really is no other reason for using a smartphone instead of three colored LEDs to display results).
Is anyone really buying this?
Here's a more likely story:
* Parents see scientific curiosity in her daughter, as well as the will to help people.
* Parents see a fear of lead in water and therefore a market for testkits
* Parents see that testkits already on the market suffer
from being unreliable in untrained hands/too difficult to use.
* Parents have the idea for a better, "digital testkit", but that turns out to be way more expensive than anything that is already on the market.
* Parents then spoonfeed the idea to her daughter. They do the work, she gets the credit (and probably thinks that she did most of the work).
* The media picks the story up because "awwwww ... smart kid", resulting in free marketing for what would otherwise be a totally overengineered/overpriced product.
- skocznymroczny 9y agoI've seen a few similar stories. "11 year old kid creates artificial brain". Translation: 11 year old kid copy pastes and runs tutorial code for OpenCV image recognition.