15-year-old invents flashlight that runs on the body heat of the hand holding it

[torchjunkie]

She won herself a nice $25k scholarship from Google too.

Article: Best + Brightest: Hollow Flashlight Runs on Your Body Heat | Gadgets, Science & Technology
Video: http://youtu.be/9CCGUMkcbjg?t=1m50s

[Pregulla]

The Hollow (Thermoelectric) Flashlight

[The Hollow (Thermoelectric) Flashlight - Google Science Fair] More info HERE

The future of flashlights? Not!

Our son, who is a self confessed science geek (I understand this is no longer regarded as a term of abuse) drew my attention to the following article whilst he was conducting a science project at school. I don’t think this will cause too many waves in the world of flashlights but it is great to see a hugely self confident girl punching above her weight (We have a 14 year old girl at home and this is inspirational) Ann Makosinski For those of you outside the UK the video is also available via t…

[torchjunkie]

lol sorry… it was on reddit’s frontpage this morning.

http://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/comments/2hra7f/15yearold_wins_25000_scholarship_for_inventing_a/