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On the other hand, the author is 13. It's a novelty piece, not an attempt at serious news.

• wglb 17y ago
  I wonder. None of the 13-year-olds that I know or knew would be anywhere in the same zip code (or postal code) as the word "plethora".
  • mquander 17y ago
    Nor would any of them dump their iPhones for Walkmen, I wager. I wrote about like that kid does when I was 13 years old.
  • yan 17y ago
    To be fair, those 13-year-olds also don't have a BBC editor and their parents at their disposal. Well, maybe their parents :)
• riklomas 17y ago
  A 13 year old who works for CrunchGear too: http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/29/one-of-our-interns-makes-it-big-by-carrying-a-walkman-for-a-week/ http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/29/one-of-our-interns-make...
• radu_floricica 17y ago
  Give 13 years old a chance and you'll be amazed at what they can do. It's one thing I'm really not happy about western society: forces teens to be kids until about 20. AFAIK, physical mental development ends around 9. After that it's only education which decides if you're mature enough at 12 or at 30.
  • wlievens 17y ago
    Except that between 12 and 17 you've got so many hormones racing through your body that you rarely make any sensible decisions...