Stretching Science: 5 Whiz Kids, A New Use For Gold & Improved Wearable Electronics

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(editor's note: We all know that children are our future- today I bring you a story of five amazing young inventors, four from history and one emerging genius. In two related stories, we'll explore the potential for gold to assist in the applications of memory and energy storage and the emerging field of plasmonics. Using graphene, scientists have invented a lightweight and flexible material that can conduct electricity. Wearable electronic devices just got a big leap forward!

In my daily treks through the news files of the world I'm amazed at the depth and scope of emerging science technologies! In the bigger picture of our changing world, we understand that these are stepping stones towards joining our Galactic community of scientists.
~All my Love, Boo)


Whiz Kids: 5 Amazing Young Inventors




15-year old Chester Greenwood who invented earmuffs back in 1874.

Louis Braille, blind since the age of three, developed the Braille reading system when he was only 15.

Philo Farnsworth, age 14, came up with the idea to project a recorded image by scanning electrons back-and-forth across a glass screen (the television).

12-year old Margaret “Mattie” Knight is known as the "female Edison" because of her over 90 inventions that made life in the Industrial Age safer.

Today, 15-year old Param Jaggi from Texas has developed a small device that plugs into a muffler and can remove about 89% of the carbon dioxide from a car’s exhaust. The secret: a live colony of algae that takes in the CO2 from the exhaust, uses it for photosynthesis, and then releases oxygen back into the air.


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