Invented by children: 15 ingenious inventions of children

A sixth grader from Bashkiria only recently managed to determine the quality of sleep through a pillow. The main purpose of the pillow invented by the boy is an opportunity to learn about health risks and eliminate negative factors that interfere with normal sleep. Thanks to built-in sensors that monitor body temperature, room temperature, humidity, pressure and lighting level, statistics are recorded all night, and in the morning the information is transmitted to a phone or computer.

Vibration attachment for shoes for the blind

In 2014, a 16-year-old resident of Volgodonsk, Valery Ilyin, decided to help blind people move around by creating a device that costs 3000 rubles. It is an attachment for glasses and shoes, inside which sensors notice obstacles, and vibrators report them to a person. The vibration signal becomes stronger when an obstacle approaches.

Supercharger for smartphone

An 18-year-old schoolgirl from California tried to solve the problem of modern smartphones that take a long time to charge. In 2013, Aisha Khar introduced a small nano-battery that takes only 30 seconds to charge. The girl has applied the invention so far only for an LED lamp, but experts hope to develop this idea in relation to gadgets.

A new kind of printed graphics

The opening was made by 10-year-old Muscovite Anastasia Rodimina in 2012. The girl accidentally forgot about her monotype with a piece of paper superimposed on the paint on the window. After a few days, the colors burned out in the sunlight, and the area hidden under the leaf retained its outline and brightness. Doctors believe that Nastya’s invention can be used as art therapy. The grandfather helped the girl to patent the discovery.

To understand the needs, desires and mood of the cat became possible for the Don 11th grade student Alexander Tkachev in 2016. At the heart of the work of the invented collar is an infrared locator that tracks the position of the cat’s tail and transmits information to the program, where it is processed and sent to the phone of the owner of the animal.

In 2012, a breakthrough in medicine in the field of diagnosing cancer was made by 15-year-old American Jack Andraka. With the help of the invented device in the form of a glucometer, cancer of the pancreas, ovaries and lungs can be determined in the early stages, moreover, faster and cheaper than existing analogues.

Once an American schoolboy George, who was enthusiastically engaged in gymnastics, saw a circus performance of acrobats. Their mesmerizing stunts prompted George to make a set that you can not only land on after the exercises, but also jump and perform tricks in the air. And voila – a 16-year-old schoolboy invented a completely ingenious contraption, which they called a trampoline (from the Italian battuta – “blow”).

At the age of three, a French boy, Louis Braille, stumbled upon a boot knife in his father’s workshop. By the age of 5, the baby completely lost his eyesight due to progressive eye inflammation. The boy had to go to school for the blind, but this did not break his spirit, but, as it turned out, prompted him to greatness. In 1824, in the process of studying, Louis was inspired by the developed relief-linear type for reading books to blind people, which was invented by the teacher of the Lyceum, Valentin Gayuy. By the time he was 15, Louis had developed his own relief-point type, which was later named after him.

15-year-old American Chester Greenwood really enjoyed skating on freezing days, while he did not like to wear a hat. In such weather conditions, the teenager came up with the idea to protect his ears from hypothermia, and then he asked his grandmother to sew fur lining to the wire on both sides. So in 1873 the first warming headphones appeared. Later they began to be improved, and various models appeared, even such as those that protect against loud noise.

Having lost her father at an early age, at the age of 13, young Margaret Knight went to work at a paper bag factory. While studying the process of making them, the girl got the idea to create a machine for making a folding bag with a flat bottom. The machine would fold the brown wrapping paper into an envelope and then glue it together at specific locations. These days these packages are in great demand.

11-year-old San Francisco native Frank Epperson drank lemonade on his front porch in a frosty winter. Not having finished drinking, Frank left a glass on the street, in which there was a stick for mixing soda powder. Going out on the porch in the morning, the boy saw that the frozen lemonade had turned into a top hat on a stick. Realizing that now it would quite pass for ice cream, the young schoolboy left lemonade in the cold on purpose, and then treated his friends. In 1923, the grown-up Epperson patented his discovery and opened a world-class fruit ice business.

The old Ford T brand was a long-awaited gift from his father for the 15th birthday of Joseph-Armand Bombardier. A few days later, a Canadian teenager dismantled the car for parts and built a mechanical sled. Joseph grew up, and the dream of inventing a fast snowmobile never left. In 1933, a young Canadian was able to put Ford on skis and tracks, creating his own motor, but he was very hot – and Joseph abandoned the idea. But a year later, tragedy struck – Joseph’s two-year-old son dies of peritonitis, who did not have time to be taken to the hospital along snow-covered roads. This made the man finish work on the snowmobile. They called it Ski-Doo and went into production.

Device for the hearing impaired

Jonah Cohn at the age of 14 discovered the ability to listen to music for the hearing impaired. In 2012, a boy accidentally leaned his teeth against a guitar, which allowed him to feel the vibration all over his body. So the idea came to my mind to create a device that was later called Good Vibrations. It converts sound waves into tactile sensations so that hearing impaired people can feel the music.

With every hiccup attack, 13-year-old American Mallory Keevman tried all new ways to get rid of the misfortune, but nothing helped. The schoolgirl began to conduct her own experiments, studying the physiology of the hiccups itself. In 2012, the girl came up with her own recipe for lollipops, made from candy on a stick, apple cider vinegar, and sugar. They magically influenced the nerves in the throat and mouth responsible for hiccups. The revolutionary candy was named Hiccupops. Now Mallory’s invention is used by the whole world.

The personal painful experience of removing the bandages of 8-year-old Alanna Myers from Florida prompted the girl to solve this problem. After leaving the hospital, Alanna had to remove the bandages in the traditional way, which was not very pleasant. Then the girl went on experiments, during which she found out that the combination of lavender oil, soap and water would make this process much easier. The product created by the schoolgirl gained publicity and was sold in local stores.