These 7 Mind Blowing Inventions By Teens Blew My Mind! They Will Blow Yours Too!

Teenage years are the most fertile years of one’s life.

The mind is alert, the curiosity is brimming and the observation and grasping powers are at the peak. The energies too are overflowing, with a quest to know and create the new.

In these years, if the energies and the zest for the new is channelled in the right direction, then we can definitely see some masterpiece creations and some brilliant inventions.

I have some live examples of such teens who had it all in them and they used it to the best to gift the world some mind blowing inventions that made life easier for many. I am sure after reading about them, you would feel the same.

Let’s have a look at mind blowing inventions by teens:

1. Braille for Blind – Louis Braille

Invented by Louis Braille, when he was 16 plus in age, this was one amazing gift to the world in the entire history of mankind. The idea of this invention popped in Louis’s mind out of his own need. He was blinded in both eyes due to an accident when he was a kid. He disliked when people reminded him of his disability and took the blinds as helpless people.  Once, Louis attended a blind class, imparted by a man named Charles Barbier, who was the man responsible to create a system with raised dots that could help soldiers read in the dark. His idea stirred the thought process in Louis.  With a piece of paper, a stylus, and a slate, he started to punch holes and eventually developed the revolutionary Braille system for the blind to read. His invention was aptly named after him and still is a prolific way of reading for the blinds.

2. Earmuffs To Save The Ears of Cold – Chester Greenwood

These cute looking accessories, which, of course, are very useful too, were invented by Chester Greenwood when he was 15 years of age. He use to love ice skating, but this outdoor sport got his ears freezing. In the year 1873, when he returned from one of his skating trips, in the desperation to find a solution, he took a  wire and looped it at two ends, asked his grandmother to sew some tufts of fur between the loops in such a way, that when he puts it over his head, his ears remain covered and protected by the cold weather of Maine. Soon after, Chester Greenwood came up with a  better version of the first experiment and today, the entire world wears it.

3. Sign Language Translator For Hearing Impaired – Ryan Patterson

Ryan Patterson, a young energetic man, invented this magic when he was just 17. The idea struck him when he saw a translator order food for a group of hearing impaired people. He created a glove that could convert the hand motions of American sign language into easy to read letters that could be displayed digitally. This absolutely brilliant invention was undoubtedly an amazing gift to the entire community of hearing challenged people and very aptly, it became the “Grand Award Winner” in the year 2001.

4. The Hot Seat for Infants And Toddlers – Alissa Chavez

Alissa Chavez, a 17 years young girl brought this outstanding gift for all parents to life. Alissa’s mother ran a home childcare business and that is the reason she has been around children since she herself was a 2-year-old. Few years back, when the statistics of  kids dying due to being left unattended in cars rose beyond imagination, she understood that something had to be done about it. Hearing the utterly sad news of deaths of 3 kids one summer in her own state of New Mexico, she came up with the idea of a device called ‘Hot Seat’. This boon of an invention is basically an alarm system for car seats. The device sets off three alarms. One on the security key lock, the other on the phone app, and the last one is the car alarm. The motive is to alert the parents in case the unfortunate arises when they have either forgotten the infants in the car, or they had to leave them due to some unavoidable chores.

5. A Wearable Sensor To Help The Alzheimer’s Patients – Kenneth Shinozuka

Kenneth Shinozuka was mere 15 years of age when he invented this amazing device. His grandfather was suffering from Alzheimer, and he was once spotted by a policeman, wandering on the road in his night pyjamas. That event left a deep impact on Shinozuka, which led to the invention of a device that can help his grandfather, and other patients of Alzheimer’s stay safe. This device is a small sensor which is attached to the foot or the foot gear of the patient. The sensor alerts the patient’s care-taker through a phone app if the patient steps out of bed at a wrong time.

 

6. Cell Phone Charging Device In Less Than 20 Seconds – Eesha Khare

Now this one is a real boon for all the cell phone brigade today. Invented by a 18 years teenager, Eesha Khare, who is an Indian American girl, this very much-needed speed charger is topping the charts of teenage inventions.  Eesha developed a super-capacitor device that carries the potential to charge a cell-phone in less than 20 seconds! She was presented the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award on the occasion of Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, held in Phoenix in the year 2013.

7. Chemotherapy Bag For Cancer Patient Kids – Kylie Simonds

This is the most mindblowing of all, for this was brough to life by a someone who was not even a teenager when she invented this. She was mere 11 years. Kylie Simonds was 8 when she was struck by the rare kind of childhood cancer called Rhabdomyosarcoma, in the year 2011. Going through his chemotherapy at such a young age was an intense ordeal for her. Kyle felt immensely for all the kids who were suffering like her and could not carry heavy I-V poles and wires for the therapy they were undergoing. She herself would trip over wires frequently. This concern led to the invention of pediatric ‘IV Backpack’. The backpack is nothing but a portable chemotherapy carrying object. With help of this smart backpack, the cancer battling kids can receive their medication whilst they do other activities, conveniently and without needing anyone to help them with poles and wires.

While the fact remains that most of these inventions were born out of necessity, we cannot deny that there is no age to create magic.

Making life easy for self and others, is one common thought that worked behind all these mindblowing inventions by teens.