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    Whiz Kids Shows Science and Math Students Kicking Ass, Taking Names

    10 Gadget Whiz Kids Under the Age of 16

    9 Year Old Writes iPhone Application
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    Image of echo off echo off
    06/24/09

    In reply to Whiz Kids Shows Science and Math Students Kicking Ass, Taking Names
    funny the smartest americans are not americans
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    06/24/09

    @masbo99: by your rationale, you and I probably aren't either.


    /whiteboy

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    06/23/09

    In reply to Whiz Kids Shows Science and Math Students Kicking Ass, Taking Names
    OH YEAH?!
    Well has science ever put a man on the moon?
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    02/20/09

    In reply to 10 Gadget Whiz Kids Under the Age of 16
    Pshh. My daughter, at 5 months, blows these guys away. Just look at her go: [twitpic.com]
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    02/20/09

    @jlawson: Nothing against twitpic, but is that guy doing pushups the ONLY ad they have?
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    02/20/09

    In reply to 10 Gadget Whiz Kids Under the Age of 16
    Great. One kind puts two broom sticks together and he's and inventor. I've invented tons of things in that case. The kid didn't even tape them together - hes just holding them! I'm going to hold an umbrella over my car while I drive. It'll be the best invention ever.


    The hockey mask would have been a great idea if players could actually turn their necks.


    The backyard snow machine (while cool) is not something most people would want.(I'd want one) Most people would probable be looking for one of those auto shovels.

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    02/20/09

    @Alduron: At least the kid wants to use a broom and help clean up around the house. Not a real invention, but at least he's trying.
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    02/20/09

    In reply to 10 Gadget Whiz Kids Under the Age of 16
    Is it too late for me to be a Child Prodigy?
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    02/20/09

    @beardedkid: Yes, unless you're aging backwards like Benjamin Button...
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    02/20/09

    In reply to 10 Gadget Whiz Kids Under the Age of 16
    It's also depressing when the kid at the laptop has more hair than you do. At least on his head.
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    02/20/09

    @TheStig'sNJCousin_GitEmSteveDave: Hey, at least you've got more teeth than him...
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    02/20/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: You sure 'bout that?
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    02/20/09

    @EBone: I'll wait to answer that while SteveDave counts his pearly whites..
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    02/20/09

    @TheStig'sNJCousin_GitEmSteveDave:


    "Daddy has four hairs" - said by my daughter to me repeatedly over the years


    The truth hurts more then making something up

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    02/20/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: Depends. Are we counting real and fake, or just real. B/c since I have two sets of partials, that doubles my amount of fake ones. I guess the upside is that I have a ready made Halloween costume!
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    02/20/09

    @fodder650: Damn children and their brutal honesty! Why is it they can lie about who broke this and who ate the cookie, but are blatant when they see a fat person?
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    02/20/09

    @TheStig'sNJCousin_GitEmSteveDave: Oh man I forgot about that picture...
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    02/20/09

    @TheStig'sNJCousin_GitEmSteveDave: Nature abhors a fat hum(an)..


    I think that may have been one of my worst puns yet..

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    02/20/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: I guess that only makes sense if you've ever heard of this expression before..


    Nature

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    02/20/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: My Ex abhorred the vacuum. Does that count?
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    02/20/09

    @TheStig'sNJCousin_GitEmSteveDave: You mean she wasn't domesticated? I hope she at least made up for it in other areas...
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    02/20/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: She was excellent at "Pool Toy Tooth Removal". For an example, see above, or the next day shot below:

    You would not believe how cold my chin was.
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    02/20/09

    In reply to 10 Gadget Whiz Kids Under the Age of 16
    Maybe one of them can design an office chair that doesn't have the ability to perforate your colon at a moments notice...
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    02/20/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: Cross-referencing another post +1. Nicely done.
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    02/20/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: Yet -1 for making me start clenching all over again.
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    02/20/09

    @Null42: I haven't been able to unclench yet....
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    02/20/09

    In reply to 10 Gadget Whiz Kids Under the Age of 16
    That metal shoe detector is rather retarded, does a conventional metal detector at the airport already do this?
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    02/20/09

    @1 DVS BSTD-Its off the Hizzle fo $hizzle My Dizzle: Apparently he's the kid who designed the one used at Chicago's O'Hare airport...
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    02/20/09

    In reply to 10 Gadget Whiz Kids Under the Age of 16
    I cant be the only parent who reads this and is shaking his head at his own kids incompetencies.


    Sure they have their childhood and fun and all that. But really shouldnt be son at least have his A+ by 8?

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    02/20/09

    @fodder650: My under-achieving 18-month old spawn is at home right now either napping or playing with toy blocks. Time to put him to work.
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    02/20/09

    In reply to 10 Gadget Whiz Kids Under the Age of 16
    Or it could mean the end of our childhood, thus the end of our world. Do you really think the Overmind doesn't observe this blog?
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    02/20/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: No, it just means while these eggheads are out there making stuff we can slack off, kick back and play with Legos all day..
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    02/20/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Food Cake: You know what, I have no regrets.


    LEGO forever.

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    02/05/09

    In reply to 9 Year Old Writes iPhone Application
    When I was 9 I was either neck deep in LEGO bricks, or playing with my BMX trying to outrun cars on the sidewalk. Daddy, why didn't you buy me a computer? What's that Daddy? You want me to burn this office down? OK, you're the boss I guess.
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    02/05/09

    In reply to 9 Year Old Writes iPhone Application
    What a childhood. The only way this kid is ever going to have a social life is if he pays for one.
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    02/05/09

    @Shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog: If he's already writing successful apps at age 9, paying for a social life is not out of the question.
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    02/05/09

    In reply to 9 Year Old Writes iPhone Application
    "Man, this makes the "Clean Desk Award" I earned in 3rd grade seem like total crap." -- If it makes you feel better, that award was total crap to begin with.
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    02/05/09

    @sumocat: A clean desk is nothing to be ashamed of, not at all. I have never won such an award, and would proudly display it if I had. Either that or I'd leave it lying under a pile of crap on my desk, for the sake of irony.
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    02/05/09

    In reply to 9 Year Old Writes iPhone Application
    Kids are practically born wired in now, and its not a bad thing. There is so much information available to them on line and through cable tv that we didnt have. I had my daughter on my lap and on line at 9 months old and she is a rabid Mythbusters and TimeWarp fan. (She also just tested in the top 5% in the country in Science, so SOMETHING is working).
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    02/05/09

    @Curves: "She also just tested in the top 5% in the country in Science, so SOMETHING is working."


    Just introduce her to Gizmodo commenting. THAT will put a stop to that "learning" nonsense!

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    02/05/09

    @bosskev: I let her read Giz posts (the ones I think she will like) but I dont let her read the comments for obvious reasons.
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    02/05/09

    @Curves: "...but I dont let her read the comments for obvious reasons."


    And thus she stays in the top 5% of the country's class.


    Oh, and tell her that a stranger from far, far away thinks she is really cool to be achieving such high Science scores and encourages her to keep up the good work!

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    02/05/09

    @Curves: It's because of me isn't it. Isn't it!?


    :'(

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    02/05/09

    In reply to 9 Year Old Writes iPhone Application
    Isn't there labour laws against this behaviour, understandbly the kid is high intelligent, and must be applauded, but I am left wondering as to how much input his father had in the making of the app.
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    02/05/09

    @raylites: "...but I am left wondering as to how much input his father had in the making of the app."


    See frigg above. No fatherly input at all. Nope. Not even the tiniest little comment.

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    02/05/09

    @raylites: I lost a finger playing with Javascript.
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    02/05/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: "I lost a finger playing with Javascript."


    It could have been worse. You could have been playing with Lorena Bobbitt.

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    02/05/09

    @bosskev: ... in which case the finger wouldn't be completely lost. It would be found, reattached, and the subject of a docudrama starring its rightful owner.
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