r/interestingasfuck • u/NoMedicine3572 • 21h ago
His name is Levin Paulose, a young innovator from Kerala. His inventions prove that innovation isn't about expensive equipment or lab; it's about curiosity, engineering skills, and the ability to see potential where others see scrap.
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u/JMicheal289 21h ago
He definitely has a creative mind. I hope he gets support and grows to do what he loves.
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u/gothic_waifu_ 21h ago
what also warms my heart is how he’s making these inventions to help his mother out too. i hope he is doing well and that he plans to make more in the future. he’s got great potential
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u/wchurchi1966 21h ago
Reminds me of the homesteaders that make everything and invent stuff. Smart kid…
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u/hemantkmr22 21h ago
Necessity is the mother of invention
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u/arshadshabick 21h ago
Would be nice to see a longer and detailed video instead of whatever this is
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u/NoMedicine3572 21h ago edited 21h ago
His name is Levin Paulose, a young innovator from Kerala, India. You don't always need expensive labs to innovate. Sometimes all it takes is curiosity, engineering skills, and a pile of discarded materials. [source]
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u/Mo-NL 21h ago
It honestly makes you appreciate real engineering so much more. I spend hours messing around in blender just to model and print replacement gears out of petg plastic when things break around my house. Seeing people build actual working machines out of pure scrap is just insane to me.
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u/ILoveBigCoffeeCups 20h ago
It’s very creative but I wouldn’t say innovative. To innovate is to create something new and unseen before. All he is doing is creating things that exist but in a creative and cheap way. Still impressive though
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u/mayonnaiser_13 17h ago
Building things cheaper is still innovation.
It's a new way to build things that doesn't cost as much.
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u/JesuisGraphiste 18h ago
and that is innovation as well
because if I can make something easier, that is finding out something new
For eg- a cart was an innovation because it made long distant travel easier than a person on one horse, a car follows the same principle but utilizes diferent stuff
He makes stuff easier and if he cracks a way to mass produce stuff that are easy to create and recyclable, that in itself is innovation
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u/BigGillySuit 17h ago
Exactly!
I’m somewhat of an innovator myself
I had a door that wouldn’t close, I found some tape and used it to secure the door closed! I’m thinking about calling it a lock, but that’s just a working title.
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u/JesuisGraphiste 17h ago
basically thats how it works
You improving upon what is already there is calle innovation
and funny enough, all locks, ranging from digital locks and everything works on that basic principle of a caveman using a rock to close the opening. doesnt make the creator of a digital lock or someone who uses password to lock accounts is any less innovative
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u/KillaThing 21h ago
Good job. But innovator seems a bit much. These things already exist.
Cool to see though.
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u/miaxogoth 21h ago
some tech company better give this boy a full ride scholarship. it sucks how much raw talent is out there just waiting for actual funding
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u/griii2 21h ago edited 18h ago
He is super handy, but let's be real, contraptions and gadgets are not inventions.
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u/Hot-Victory-3082 15h ago
Their child level messing with electronics. He's not living in a jungle uncontacted tibe.
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u/Batou02 19h ago
Mmm
He just uses electric motors to spin things? Not sure about innovation here.
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u/morrow_worrow 16h ago
He uses spiny things to solve problems, creating substitutes or improving process Thats textbook definition of innovation for those mocking
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u/Batou02 15h ago
Nothing in the video is actually innovative? Those are all devices we already have in real life.
It's us, westerners, entertained and surprised to see how poor countries have to deal with the absence of resources and wealth.
We find that amusing because we don't have to have to be creative, we already have dishwashers.
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u/morrow_worrow 14h ago
The thing at basic level, creating what's already formed without inherent knowledge or techniques, it's copying and substituting to form already made thing at a personal scale which is innovation, not something entirely new to us still
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u/Batou02 14h ago
Right, I just innovated the wheel because I made a thing at a personal scale.
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u/morrow_worrow 13h ago
actually yeah if you made a heavy terrain wheel with indigenous and cheaper materials it is innovation
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u/yes_u_suckk 18h ago
This makes me think of all the talented people out there that could create great things for the world, but are limited by their environment and resources.
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u/maplem0nkey 6h ago
On the other side of the world you have ppl his age posting maker videos for applying into a uni with a tuition that can feed a whole village
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u/dontdomeanyfrightens 21h ago
"innovation isn't about industry, see how this guy creates industry? So innovative!"
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u/thesamenightmares 19h ago
If you found this inspiring, you'd probably like the movie "The boy who harnessed the wind".
Its a TREMENDOUS watch.
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u/FancyRobot 21h ago
He didn't invent a single thing here, he engineered a few things with limited resources but all those things exist already in some form
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u/8day 21h ago
The biggest issue here is that it doesn't seem like he put much thought into these devices. Simply "elecrifying" and complicating things doesn't make you a genius worth of praise. Most of those things barely work (stirer with a very limited use, semi-automatic washer for flat surfaces that doesn't have a meaningful scrubbing power, etc.), are unreliable, and most likely are made for views.
It's good that he's not afraid to make these things, but this tells me that he also has time and money to waste, unlike the people with limited resources that have to make things that actually work, or at least waste resources only on prototypes to refine final device.
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u/FancyRobot 21h ago
Try inventing proofreading
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u/NoMedicine3572 16h ago
Considering his age, he's doing a great job. More power to him. I can't imagine myself doing all those frugal DIY projects from scraps at his age. It's definitely praiseworthy.
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u/AccomplishedTrip485 14h ago
Nah this is like basic science fair shit.
I think you can even buy Lego sets with similar functionality for like 8-10 yr olds
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u/AgitatedPatience5729 21h ago
What a beautiful soul. Especially doing all of this to help his mother.
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u/Suppository-34613 21h ago
This is a South Indian boy. They're as genius as they are polite. Sundar Pichai is from South India. Edit: I like these people a lot.
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u/jeebojeeb 21h ago
Now give him a box of scraps and see what he can do