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14-Year-Old Inventor Named ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’

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0:00 not just to anybody I think it was like something different like that it was like pretty cool yeah but those apps never worked because of molestation yeah but then again he uh molested somebody and uh that was that oh ████ hopefully you get sporked in jail you know what I'm saying [Music] it's for a 14 year old student who invented a device that detects and treats mid ear uh let me just be clear about what that is mid-ear infections right so it's like in the middle of the year you know you get an ear infection yeah but like sometimes you can't quite reach it with certain antibiotics oh really using this um light that she invented oh it's alive yeah she can kill the bacteria inside of her ear whoa a 14 year old and she was awarded this year's 3M young scientist

0:50 challenge grand prize from San Diego California her name is Leanne fan um why did I think Indian or Asian because I'm racist she's Asian no that's what I meant like Indian or Asian but being right about it doesn't make you less racist so she calls them the fencing headphones um after Niels fencing the Nobel Prize recipient who discovered that ultraviolet light can help treat bacterial infections she named it what the fence and headphones yeah the fence and headphones she calls it beats by lay he's my fan she says every year 10 of the world's population experience a mid-ear infection most of which our children are underprivileged people um furthermore not everyone has access to a doctor which makes it difficult to diagnose and treat a mid-air infection my solution to this is to create a

1:42 low-cost device that can both detect and treat those infections how did she do this research that's so insane well she says she basically became a finalist um from Shark Tank no no sure no she she doesn't say how she came up with it she just I think followed the Nobel Prize recipient's research and then came up with a cool application for it that also plays music oh that's even better she made it even cooler she says that um you put the headphones on they play music she personally likes to listen to BTS tight behind the scenes this is kind of annoy me and there are smart headphones too which is cool and then the lasers inside the headphones so the baby doesn't know

2:32 that it's happening and then the laser clears up the ear boogers exactly the lights just see I wish I had that kind of smarts what's her name Miss spam say her name was it me and fan Leanne fan fam fam with the m a fan okay oh F not pH no like the appliance oh like the appliance okay it's Chinese fam what's fan fa animal it says I think pH is Vietnamese yeah oh it just says she's from San Diego oh she's San Diego but she's really American but she hears her wearing the headphones it's pretty cute dude good job let's go she's a genius I also wish I was a genius I haven't invented anything

3:23 cool you didn't invent anything inventing stuff's like that's the coolest thing you can do is to prevent something and something and have it be useful I was convinced I wanted to make the retractable Spork one time what is it where does it retract to well so it's a spoon and then you just and it becomes a sport but who really needs a spork these days you know nobody just like Devil's and have it be useful I was gonna I was gonna make an NPC like beat sampler you know when you go to do but it was a steering wheel cover so when you listen to music but then uh fatalities I saw in my dreams hey when does anyone ever use a spork and it's like pretty reliable it breaks all the time don't ████ on his invention well no I'm not really I'm not really trying but if we had to pitch on how to ████ on anything like how can we make it how can we how about like try to come up

4:14 with one cool thing no no I just don't think it is that word what's your invention what's your invention um oh it's a it's so what it does is like you you crank this thing and it destroys Sports when you put them in yeah because like everyone's like oh they're so useful already invented you just grind that you just use this grinder and then yeah also you're you're an accessory to my industry that's so sick dude it destroys Sports yeah that's cool put your hand back up put it up I'm taking it back anybody else had any uh childhood inventions I don't want to share it because Steve's gonna ████ on me dude he already made it he already went he already went what's yours no I don't I don't have anything I want to use uh smart contracts for constructing commercial properties to eliminate con um um corruption let's go and then

5:05 government middleman corruption yeah and then uh so people are gonna leverage those smart contracts and then it's over dude like uh let's say like let's say there's a there's like tax money that gets collected right and then we use the blockchain to see how much went to this department and then from there the smart contract for like let's say building a railway gets divvied up for whatever and then we see what it's spent on so then we'll actually have rail projects that are finished because I don't know why rail projects never get done I kind of like that they don't get them you do because if you laugh at us kind of like a Charming thing that is part of our society like we get to ████ to our neighbors about something together and we all get to commiserate about it yeah and all of our tax dollars go to it yeah yeah and but we can't quite track it kind of like it kind of like your cranes but oh where'd

5:55 all the tax money goes like I don't really care and I shouldn't ask these questions huh dude I knew you like the mystery I knew a dude who invented this app and it like got bought for millions and it's uh what it did is it allowed restaurants to all the restaurants were using this app where at the end of the day the surplus food that they could neither uh sell or throw away they listed it on the app and it got like bought for uh services to like give it to homeless or for like people that just want to cheap food that's great and then it would get collected this probably wasn't in California it was yeah it's a California thing but then uh true story the guy went to jail for model station way I thought well no because in California you can't like they used to do that where they would they had a company that would round up like grocery stores and like people who had like

6:45 donuts that were like they couldn't sell anymore and they were trying to get into homeless people and then the state cracked down that ████ and like they're like stop feeding them we want them hungry yeah it's because of lawsuits lawyers would wait and then like when a homeless guy goes hey you're sick aren't you yeah and then they basically sue the state or whatever it is that's what this app did is it gave uh certain permitted services to get that food oh that's cool it's not just to anybody I think it was like something different like that it was like pretty cool yeah but those apps never worked because of molestation yeah but then again he uh molested somebody and uh that was that oh ████ hopefully you get sporked in jail you know what I'm saying that one is useful that's when it attracted so yeah don't put him in the grinder just sport them yeah we thought it was good food no I go like this with The Grater now I'm like it goes

7:36 my bad I was wrong yeah there we go no did you ever think of an invention that would help make filmmaking easier uh that would be innovating myself out of a job hey have you seen this ████ where um you know how like they're making Carl's Jr commercials and ████ and they make like all the patties coming together at the same time and it's like the lettuce is bouncing around oh it's great there's like a whole I watched a YouTube video where this cat is like talking about how his production company like sets up uses Machinery to pull those shots in and out I'm like it's ████ bananas I thought of you I thought you'd think okay yeah yeah those are cool I love those things what about a uh a Steadicam that's floating no like a drony cam it's just loud as ████ where it's not

8:27 like where it's not uh you're not you're not holding it doesn't have to be yeah human human operated well it does just not human weighed down yeah oh um yeah we have those they're called cranes oh so why do we still have steady camps different looks and how come they gotta always also like maybe the scene you need somebody to walk through something that a crane can't get get past how about this okay you ever been on set and they set up those little tracks and they have their dolly in the shot over but then they hit a guy's shoe and they run over a guy's foot you got a shoe now that has a rail right there so now it's all good it just it goes right over it you're completely good that's amazing and you're not missing shots the guys

9:19 just stands there it just rolls right over and it's like all good it's like soaps remember soaps how about an SD card that already is deleted it's a dummy SD card that's really good hey that's something new and then it's already deleted and he and then he can't do his usual deleting thing he puts him out of a job he's obsolete Innovative hey I don't feel good about getting paid today because I tried to drag and drop the footage into the trash can it didn't work I don't feel good I feel good about this oh what did you call it pop lock drag and drop that was off camera but yeah Pop Lock drag and drop

10:09 good branding you just only remember the pop and lock part yeah yeah almost I mean the drag well we can't we don't remember the Dragon Bridge did you guys know that zipper is like that's an invention from one dude and that zipper is the same zipper like on everything so he patented yeah the patent his own so the zipper family is like just rolling and dope you know when you're watching like like football and you see the yellow line like which is like the first down marker and you see like the line scrimmage marker the blue line that's some guy who owns that ████ ████ same ████ he patented the along with the technology yeah the technology so like the way that it appears on the field and how players can run over it and like you don't it doesn't matter ████ sick but it showed the line of gain and it helps the game so much because you can see what's like where they need to get to so it actually has helped the game visually so much that yeah that's one of the sickest things ever but that cat gets paid like 80 G's

11:00 a game it's like insane per game per game like wow that was like the last time I read about this was like eight years ago so maybe it's more than that but it's very renegotiation there's one I think it was an Indian dude who invented the um the pill capsule that dissolves you know the one that whoa and I only know this because uh when I was doing this job for uh Circus Soleil back in the day um this one dude because he's so ████ rich off of that hired Circ to come out and do a private whole show for like uh one of his adventures birthday or some ████ and I was like who the ████ can afford to have a whole search show for themselves it's like oh yeah you're ████ event to that and I was like that's a good invention yeah that's a good idea mentioned geez does the average trip you out that everything that is around us is an invention from multiple people every ████ day I never thought of it yeah I can't wait

11:51 for that SD card that auto deletes [Music] foreign [Music]

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