What did you invent as a kid?
We all grew up spilling hot chocolate on carpets, throwing television remotes from balcony and breaking window glasses playing soccer.
When I look back now, I see these as experiments that helped us figure out how nature works. As toddlers, we accidentally dropped heavy toys on our toes to learn gravity. We learned by tasting random stuff that not everything in the universe is edible. And so on.
As part of the incredible process of growing up, sometimes we invented things as well. My brother, as a kindergartner, believed for a long time that he invented the green color by mixing yellow and blue. When I was around 12, I seriously thought that I invented the formula for (a+b)^n for n = 3, 4 and 5 (i.e., a special case of Binomial Theorem).
We all have similar stories. It would be great if we share what we invented as kids and then figured out much later that it already exists!
Share your stories below!