Ann Makosinski is an 18 year old girl who invented a coffee mug that could charge our phone. Her latest invention, eDrink uses the heat from a coffee mug to charge our phone for 30 minutes.
Ann Makosinski’s first serious toy was a box of transistors.
She’s been tinkering ever since, creating projects with a hot-glue gun and
household items. A few years ago, she used her hobby to solve a real-world
problem.
A friend in the Philippines was failing school; without
electricity, she couldn’t do her homework at night. So Makosinski devised a
flashlight powered by the heat of your hand. It uses peltier tiles, which
generate electricity when one side is hotter than the other, to draw energy
from the heat difference between hand and air. Makosinski submitted her
invention to the 2013 Google Science Fair and won first place in her age group.
She has since nabbed prizes from competitions such as the
2014 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, and has twice appeared
on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Makosinski is now enrolled at the
University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
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