What would you invent? Ideas from kids (1) Τι θα επινοούσατε; Ιδέες από παιδιά (1) What would you invent? Ideas from kids (1) ¿Qué inventarías? Ideas de los niños (1) あなたなら何を発明する？子供たちのアイデア (1) 무엇을 발명하시겠어요? 아이들의 아이디어 (1) Co byś wymyślił? Pomysły dzieci (1) O que é que tu inventarias? Ideias de crianças (1) Что бы вы изобрели? Идеи детей (1) Vad skulle du uppfinna? Idéer från barn (1) Siz ne icat ederdiniz? Çocuklardan fikirler (1) Що б ви винайшли? Ідеї від дітей (1) 你会发明什么？孩子们的创意 (1) 你會發明什麼？孩子們的想法 (1)

December 22, 2021

**Jane** 00:20

This is But Why: a Podcast for Curious Kids from Vermont Public Radio. I'm Jane Lindholm. On this show, we take questions from curious kids just like you. Neste programa, respondemos às perguntas de crianças curiosas como tu. And sometimes the answers to those questions come from curious kids just like you. For today's episode, we got to ask the question, to celebrate the end of 2021. No episódio de hoje, temos de fazer a pergunta, para celebrar o final de 2021. And the start of the new year, we thought we'd have a little fun and look to the future. Et le début de la nouvelle année, nous avons pensé nous amuser un peu et regarder vers l'avenir. So we asked you to send us your ideas for inventions. And you responded with ideas for things like flying cars, machines that do your chores for you, and invisibility cloaks, and more. E vocês responderam com ideias para coisas como carros voadores, máquinas que fazem as tarefas por vocês, capas de invisibilidade e muito mais. I think it's safe to say that some of your inventions are things we might actually see in the future. And some are probably the realm of science fiction or fantasy. E algumas são provavelmente do domínio da ficção científica ou da fantasia. But let's get started. Let's imagine a world that's a little bit different from the one we live in now. We are going to hear all the ideas you sent us and to help inspire you to actually go make your invention. Nous allons écouter toutes les idées que vous nous avez envoyées et vous aider à vous inspirer pour réaliser votre invention. We're also going to talk with two kids who did turn their idea into reality. First, though, let's hear a few of your ideas, starting with how we might harness energy. Mais d'abord, écoutons quelques-unes de vos idées, en commençant par la façon dont nous pourrions exploiter l'énergie. Primeiro, porém, vamos ouvir algumas das vossas ideias, começando pela forma como podemos aproveitar a energia.

**Mara** 01:35

Hi, I'm Mara and I'm seven years old from Spokane, Washington. My idea for an invention is a solar powered cooler. A minha ideia para uma invenção é um frigorífico alimentado a energia solar. When we went camping all our ice kept melting and our cheese got all goopy. Quando fomos acampar, o nosso gelo estava sempre a derreter e o nosso queijo ficou todo pegajoso. What if we use the energy from the sun to some how cool the food that needs to stay cold? Et si nous utilisions l'énergie du soleil pour refroidir les aliments qui doivent rester froids ? E se utilizássemos a energia do sol para, de alguma forma, arrefecer os alimentos que precisam de ficar frios?

**Idris** 01:56

My name is Idris and I live in Madison, Wisconsin. But I'm truly from South Asia. Mas eu sou verdadeiramente do Sul da Ásia. And my invention is the battery powered refrigerator that's powered by four double A batteries. E a minha invenção é o frigorífico a pilhas que é alimentado por quatro pilhas duplas A. And the reason why I'm building it is because in some countries or places electricity doesn't work well.

**Jane** 02:28

Idris, it's awesome that you're trying to make things work better in places that don't have stable electricity. Idris, c'est génial que vous essayiez de faire fonctionner les choses mieux dans des endroits qui n'ont pas d'électricité stable. And Mara so many inventions come from people's own experiences. E Mara, muitas invenções vêm das próprias experiências das pessoas. A solar powered cooler is an excellent idea.

**Slyvie** 02:42

My name is Slyvie and I'm 10 years old, and my great idea for invention is a toy that has motion sensors so when you wave to it, it'll say hello, O meu nome é Slyvie, tenho 10 anos e a minha grande ideia para uma invenção é um brinquedo que tem sensores de movimento, por isso, quando lhe acenamos, ele diz olá,

**Jane** 02:54

Sylvie, I would be waving at it all the time. Sylvie, je lui ferais signe de la main tout le temps.

**Yasmin** 02:57

Hi, my name is Yasmin from South Orange, New Jersey and I'm 10 years old. Something I would invent is a double bristle toothbrush because it would be much easier, so much easier to brush your teeth.

**Jane** 03:10

Good one, Yasmin.

**Zavi** 03:12

Hi. My name is Zavi. I'm seven years old from North Carolina. My invention would be magical notes. A minha invenção seriam as notas mágicas. My mommy always gets great ideas while driving but can't write them down because her hands are on the wheel. A minha mãe tem sempre grandes ideias enquanto conduz, mas não as pode escrever porque tem as mãos no volante. Magical notes will listen to mommy say her ideas out loud and type it out like magic on her phone onto a notepad. Then later Mommy could read her ideas and write more. Magical notes is handsfree note taking and idea making. As notas mágicas são anotações e ideias em mãos livres.

**Jane** 03:51

I bet your mom would love that, Zavi. You know what I would love? Penelope's invention: real fairy dust. A invenção de Penélope: o verdadeiro pó de fada.

**Penelope** 04:00

Hi, my name is Penelope. I'm keen to invent fairy dust. Estou desejoso de inventar o pó de fada. All the kids will use my invention if they want to make a wish. My fairy dust will be the color rainbow. And it will be free to all children.

**Jane** 04:16

Free fairy dust for all the children! Come and get it. Venez le chercher. Venham buscá-lo.

**Thomas** 04:20

I'm Thomas and I'm from St. Chamo-me Thomas e sou de St. Louis. And I'm four and a half. E eu tenho quatro anos e meio. And my idea is to make a robot trampoline that give you snacks whenever you want to. E a minha ideia é fazer um trampolim robô que nos dê lanches sempre que quisermos. And you can watch TV while you're bouncing. E pode ver televisão enquanto está a saltar.

**Jane** 04:45

That is one fancy trampoline! É um trampolim muito bonito!

**Lily-Mei** 04:48

I Lily-Mei and I'm six years old, and I live in Vancouver, BC and I will invent a cup that can open for kids. Moi Lily-Mei et j'ai six ans, et je vis à Vancouver, en Colombie-Britannique et je vais inventer une tasse qui peut s'ouvrir pour les enfants. Eu sou a Lily-Mei e tenho seis anos, vivo em Vancouver, BC, e vou inventar um copo que se pode abrir para as crianças. Thank you. Bye!

**Jane** 05:01 Cool!

**Henry** 05:03

My name is Henry. I'm 10 years old, and I live in Atlanta, Georgia. If I could invent anything, I would invent a automatic fetch machine that will pick up and throw any type of balls for any type or size of dog. Se eu pudesse inventar alguma coisa, inventaria uma máquina automática de apanhar e atirar qualquer tipo de bolas para qualquer tipo ou tamanho de cão. You can feed balls into a slot on the side of the machine, the ball will come out in the palm of the machines hand. As bolas podem ser introduzidas numa ranhura lateral da máquina e a bola sairá na palma da mão da máquina. This machine is for dog owners that can't throw. Esta máquina é para os donos de cães que não sabem atirar.

**Jane** 05:31

I bet even dog owners who can throw would like that if they have a dog that never seems to get tired of playing fetch. Aposto que até os donos de cães que sabem lançar gostariam de o fazer se tivessem um cão que parece nunca se cansar de jogar à apanhada.

**Rowan** 05:38

I'm Rowan. I'm six years old, and I live in Portland, Oregon. And I would like a slide that give you an ice cream cone at the bottom. Et je voudrais une diapositive qui vous donne un cornet de glace en bas. E gostaria de ter um diapositivo que nos desse um gelado no fundo.

**Jane** 05:53

A slide that gives you an ice cream cone at the end. Sign me up, Rowan. Inscreve-me, Rowan. But here's a question for you. Do you think you'd get sick of ice cream after a while if every time you went on the slide, you got one? Achas que te fartarias de gelado ao fim de algum tempo se, de cada vez que fosses ao escorrega, recebesses um? Here's another ice cream related invention. Aqui está outra invenção relacionada com gelados.

**Sebastian** 06:09

Hello, my name is Sebastian. I am seven years old. And I live in Hong Kong. My invention is an ice cream making machine. How it works is that you put a dollar coin inside and out comes an ice cream. Funciona assim: coloca-se uma moeda de um dólar no interior e sai um gelado.

**Aashay** 06:35

Hi, my name is Aashay. And I'm seven years old. I live in San Diego, California. And my invention is a vaccine that can make you live forever to make a new planet. E a minha invenção é uma vacina que nos pode fazer viver para sempre para criar um novo planeta.

**Jane** 06:52

Oh my gosh, this one vaccine is going to do both things at once? Wow! But you know Aashay you're going to have to also invent a spaceship that can take you to that new planet to explore it. Meera, who is six and lives in New Delhi, India sent us a picture of the invention she'd like to make. It's shaped like the kind of whale called a narwhal. Tem a forma de uma espécie de baleia chamada narval. And here's Meera describing it.

**Parent** 07:18

Can you explain what you're drawing?

**Meera** 07:20

Hello, hello. So, this is the picture of the narwhal that will help clean the ocean. So this is the narwhals'

body. These are the claws that can pick up the trash. Estas são as garras que podem apanhar o lixo. These are two chip. Estes são dois chips. This is a chip packet and bean container. Este é um pacote de batatas fritas e um recipiente para feijões. And these are microplastics. So this the horn will suck them up. Assim, a buzina vai sugá-los. Okay, and this is the main body of the narwhal. Ok, e este é o corpo principal do narval. And over on its belly. E de barriga para baixo. It has like a compartment that it can open and it can take in any sort of trash. Tem um compartimento que se pode abrir e pode recolher qualquer tipo de lixo.

**Parent** 08:02

Wow. Okay, that's wonderful.

**Meera** 08:04

So it's cleaned up almost all of the this area in my picture. Assim, limpou quase toda esta área na minha fotografia.

**Parent** 08:09 Okay, wonderful.

**Jane** 08:11

Kind of like the Mermicorn another kid created that we talked about in one of our previous episodes. Tal como o Mermicórnio que outro miúdo criou e de que falámos num dos nossos episódios anteriores. I'm now picturing a whole pod of mechanical creatures cleaning up our ocean. Estou agora a imaginar um grupo de criaturas mecânicas a limpar o nosso oceano. I love it.

**Finn** 08:24

Hello. My name is Finn, and I am eight years old and live in Gold Coast Australia. My invention would be an app that if you find any feathers, scan it, and the app would tell you what type of bird it was from. A minha invenção seria uma aplicação que, se encontrarmos penas, as digitalizássemos e a aplicação nos dissesse de que tipo de ave eram. Thank you.

**Jane** 08:45

Oh, wow. I know a lot of people who would love that app.

**Lily** 08:49

Hello, my name is Lily. I live in Millersburg, Ohio and I am seven years old. My invention is a book light bracelet you wear at night to read a book when it's dark. A minha invenção é uma pulseira de luz para livros que se usa à noite para ler um livro quando está escuro. Goodbye!

**Jane** 09:02

Yes, that sounds awesome. Sim, isso parece-me fantástico. And like a way so many kids would try to sneak more books after bedtime. E como uma forma de muitos miúdos tentarem roubar mais livros depois da hora de dormir. Don't think you're fooling us adults, Lily. Não penses que estás a enganar os adultos, Lily.

**Ollie** 09:13

My name is Ollie. I'm five years old. I'm from New Zealand. My invention is like the Big Bang machine so scientists can study it. If we know more about the big bang. And we can know more about the universe.

**Jane** 09:38

A big bang machine would be fascinating. Okay, so let's say you have a good idea for an invention like all the ideas we've already heard. How do you make that concept into reality something people can actually use. We talked with two young people who did turn their idea into an invention.

**Mika'il** 09:58

I'm Mika'il Naqvi. I'm 14 years old, almost 15, and I live in Shelton, Connecticut.

**Ayaan** 10:04

I'm Ayaan Naqvi. I'm 13 years old, and I'm from Shelton, Connecticut also.

**Jane** 10:07

Ayaan and Mikhail created something called the ornament anchor. Ayaan e Mikhail criaram uma coisa chamada âncora de ornamento. Ayaan had the original idea when he was in fourth grade, trying to find something to do for a school based invention convention. Ayaan a eu l'idée originale quand il était en quatrième année, essayant de trouver quelque chose à faire pour une convention d'invention à l'école. Ayaan teve a ideia original quando estava no quarto ano, tentando encontrar algo para fazer numa convenção de invenções da escola.

**Ayaan** 10:20

I was just sitting at home trying to come up with an invention. Estava sentado em casa a tentar inventar uma invenção. And I saw my dog Zara, and she, her tail always hit our ornaments down. E vi a minha cadela Zara, e ela, a sua cauda batia sempre nos nossos ornamentos. And I remember that year, we broke like three of our ornaments, because it just bumping into them, our dog hitting them. E lembro-me que, nesse ano, partimos três dos nossos ornamentos, porque o nosso cão bateu-lhes. So I thought there has to be a solution. And I researched and there was nothing on the market besides just hooks and ribbons. E pesquisei e não havia nada no mercado para além de ganchos e fitas. So I created the prototype. Por isso, criei o protótipo. And so I found all the materials I needed. We went through multiple ideas of how it would how it would work. Passámos por várias ideias sobre a forma como funcionaria. And eventually, we ended on the one the one that we thought was best. Et finalement, nous avons fini sur celui que nous pensions être le meilleur. E, por fim, acabámos por escolher a que achámos melhor. And then when I went to the, when I went to the show my invention, everyone loved it. Like all the parents, all the kids, like all the teachers, they thought it was a genius invention.

**Mika'il** 11:03

Yeah, so it was a great success. And Ayaan was able to invent ornament anchor for invention convention all the way back when he was in fourth grade, which to me is quite astonishing for somebody that young of an age to be able to go out, create something, test it and show it, which I think is awesome. E Ayaan foi capaz de inventar uma âncora de ornamento para a convenção de invenção quando estava no quarto ano, o que para mim é bastante surpreendente para alguém tão jovem ser capaz de sair, criar algo, testá-lo e mostrá-lo, o que eu acho fantástico.

**Jane** 11:18

But after the invention convention, that wasn't just it, then you had to then you figured out a way to make it a real product that people could buy. Mais après la convention sur l'invention, ce n'était pas que ça, il fallait ensuite trouver un moyen d'en faire un vrai produit que les gens pouvaient acheter. And you had to protect yourself, right, you had to get a patent for it, you had to be able to make it something that somebody else who already had machinery in a big company couldn't just copy and make themselves. Et vous deviez vous protéger, vous deviez obtenir un brevet pour cela, vous deviez être capable d'en faire quelque chose que quelqu'un d'autre qui avait déjà des machines dans une grande entreprise ne pouvait pas simplement copier et fabriquer lui-même. E tínhamos de nos proteger, certo, tínhamos de obter uma patente, tínhamos de ser capazes de fazer algo que outra pessoa que já tivesse maquinaria numa grande empresa não pudesse simplesmente copiar e fazer. How did you do that?

**Mika'il** 11:37

So how we went about this was first I wanted to learn more about business, I wanted to learn more about entrepreneurship. Donc, comment nous avons procédé, c'est d'abord que je voulais en savoir plus sur les affaires, je voulais en savoir plus sur l'entrepreneuriat. A forma como o fizemos foi, em primeiro lugar, querer aprender mais sobre negócios, queria aprender mais sobre empreendedorismo. And my parents are entrepreneurs, they're great mentors to us. But you can't really know enough about business if you haven't started a business. So I was like, okay, well, so let's start a business. And I asked Ayaan, hey, do you remember that awesome idea that you had back when you were in fourth grade? Let's turn that into a business. So we turned it into a business and we wanted to straight go out selling but our parents told us: No, you need a patent, you need to be able to patent it so that nobody can steal your invention. Transformámo-la num negócio e queríamos começar logo a vender, mas os nossos pais disseram-nos: Não, precisam de uma patente, precisam de poder patenteá-la para que ninguém possa roubar a vossa invenção. Nobody can make your invention so that you keep your invention safe, so it's only you selling it. So that's what we did. We started off we got a patent. We actually emailed a bunch of lawyers, because we didn't have any money. Na verdade, enviámos um e-mail a vários advogados, porque não tínhamos dinheiro. So we emailed a bunch of lawyers, hey, could you give us a free like, what a free patent and all that stuff. Nous avons donc envoyé un e-mail à un groupe d'avocats, hé, pourriez-vous nous donner un like gratuit, quel brevet gratuit et tout ça. Por isso, enviámos um e-mail a um conjunto de advogados a perguntar se nos podiam dar uma patente gratuita e tudo isso.

**Ayaan** 12:32

we're kid entrepreneurs trying to make it so. somos jovens empresários que estão a tentar que assim seja. But unfortunately, we didn't, we didn't get anyone to like respond.

**Mika'il** 12:39

They all ignored our emails, which is kind of unfortunate. Ils ont tous ignoré nos e-mails, ce qui est un peu malheureux. Todos eles ignoraram os nossos e-mails, o que é um pouco lamentável.

**Jane** 12:43

But Ayaan says in business, you always have to be prepared for everything. In case you haven't heard of that word patent before a patent is a way to legally protect your idea. Au cas où vous n'auriez pas entendu parler de ce mot brevet avant qu'un brevet ne soit un moyen de protéger légalement votre idée. So someone else can't take it and go make money off something you invented. Patents are issued by the government. As patentes são emitidas pelo governo. And there are