Thomas Suarez: The World’s Youngest App Developer

12 year old rising tech star Thomas Suarez impressed the tech gurus at TEDxManhattanBeach where he was invited to deliver a speech about his recently released apps for iOS devices. He addressed: ‘My parents, my friends and even the people at the Apple store all supported me… and Steve Jobs inspired me.

A 6th grade student at a middle school in the South Bay, Los Angeles, Thomas started to create and sell his own apps when Apple first released the Software Development Kit. At the tender age of nine, he found himself to be fascinated by the languages Python, Java and C and downloaded iOS Developer ToolKit and simulation tool to his computer and started practicing for hours. Within a few months, he developed his first app called Earth Fortune, which he listed at the Apple’s App Store for $99 and started his own company CarrotCorp. In an interview to the ABC News,Thomas said that he earned enough money from Earth Fortune and bought an iPod Touch. After his initial success in the first app, he started developing other apps among which “Bustin Jieber became another hit game which allows users thump the moving Justin Bieber on various positions on the screen. He has initiated an App Club at his school to share his creation and knowledge with his class-friends.

Since his development of Bustin Jieber game, he became very popular and his TED video on You Tube drew about 2 million viewers. Craig Hatkoff, the co-founder of theTribeca Film Festival, honored Suarez with Disruptive Innovation award in the shape of a hammer. In return, Thomas Suarez gave Hatkoff his MakerBot creation.

Currently, Thomas Suarez is developing games that he could be installed on both iOS as well as Android powered devices. He is determined to give several interesting apps to the world.

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Pranav Mistry, the Inventor of SixthSense Technology, a Wearable Gestural Interface

Pranav Mistry, the Inventor of SixthSense Technology, a Wearable Gestural Interface

Pranav Mistry, the inventor of SixthSense Technology, is widely regarded among the world’s top ten inventors who are going to change the world for the better.

Pranav Mistry, Photo: Wikipedia

Pranav Mistry, an Indian computer scientist and inventor, is currently a Research Assistant in the Fluid Interfaces Group at theMIT Media Lab. His research interests include Ubiquitous computing, Augmented reality, Collective intelligence, Gestural interaction,AI, Machine vision, and Robotics. He believes in bringing technology to the masses and wants to return India in some years time.

Apart from SixthSense Technology, Pranav has invented several other technology and devices. he is the inventor of the invisible mouse ‘Mouseless’ and the most creative system called SPARSH which allows users to transfer digital data by the use of human body. He has created Blinkbot, which is a wearable glasses system, by which wearer can gaze and blink to control the robot.

On completion of bachelors’ degree in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay, Pranav completed Master in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and Master of Design from Industrial Design Center, IIT Bombay. He worked as a UX Researcher with Microsoft and finally joined MIT Media Lab as a research assistant.

He has been honored and widely acclaimed for being the first person to address the idea of SixthSense to the world. In 2009, his concept and research on SixthSense was awarded the ‘Invention Award’ by Popular Science, and he was named as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35 by the MITTechnology Review TR35 and called “one of ten, best inventors in the world right now” by Chris Anderson. In 2010, he was enlisted among Creativity 50 by Creativity Magazine. In 2011, he was honored as one of the 15 Asian Scientists To Watch by Asian Scientist Magazine.

“SixthSense’ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.”

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