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Russian-Cuban child genius, aged 11
• Inventor of 3-D image
television and a refrigerator that
doesn’t need electricity
A
Russian-Cuban child aged 11 has astounded Russia’s
scientific community with various revolutionary
inventions like a 3-D image television and a
refrigerator that doesn’t need electricity.
Ernesto
Yevgueni Sánchez Shaida, the son of a Russian mother
and Cuban father and resident in the Siberian region
of Altai, was announced in his region as the great
revelation of a scientific conference and the
outright winner of a competition among talented
youth.
The
scientists at the conference in the Technical
University of Barnaul, the regional capital, were
amazed when the child presented around a dozen
industrial inventions, some of them unprecedented.
The central
pieces for the experts, including Russian academics
of international renown and foreign scientists from
France to Finland, was the television with the
three-dimensional images and a refrigeration system
that works without electricity.
The main
Russian television networks screened footage of the
university experts’ council session in which the
child demonstrated the key aspects of his inventions
to the specialists.
INVENTIONS BASED
ON NEED
The child
has designed a refrigeration installation that
operates without a compressor and does not require
electricity, an invention that is more than useful
in a region where the energy restrictions affecting
many areas of Russia, or even in his father’s
homeland, have been felt.
“I devoted
myself to this because our fridge at home broke down
and I asked my dad to explain how the systems works,
and then found other materials in the library until
I found a way of solving the problem,” he explained
to the NTV network.
In reference
to his TV he said that his set is distinguished from
existing ones in terms of the stereoscopic effect in
which the 3-D images are found with liquid crystal
indicators and thus, “exist in reality,” giving the
effect of volume.
The
Technical University of Barnaul is to take charge of
organizing the patents for the two inventions,
unique in their genre, as the official news agency
Itar-Tass was informed by Vladimir Yevstigneyev,
dean of the institute and president of the
organizing committee.
The
application will be made by the council of experts
at the University’s Physics, Technology and
Astronomy Center, which fulfilled one of Ernesto’s
lifelong dreams by presenting him with a personal
computer with an Internet connection.
Interviewed
by television stations and news agency throughout
Russia the child confided that when he finishes his
studies he wants to devote himself to research and
fulfill two dreams: to get a computer to patent his
inventions and to travel to Cuba, his father’s
homeland.
Ernesto is
the son of Tatiana Shaida and Ernesto Enrique
Sánchez – a naval engineer – who met in 1981 in
Odessa, now the Ukraine, but 10 years later when the
USSR collapsed, moved to Siberia.
Ernesto was
born that same year and four years later, his sister
Magarita Dania.
Ernesto
Yevgueni is a genius and is known as such by
everyone in his school in Rubtsovsk in southern
Siberia, where next year he will complete his
secondary studies despite his youth, comments the
Interfax agency.
But now his
case is being examined by scientists and professors
from the Center for the Assistance of Super-Gifted
Children at Barnaul, after the verification that
Ernesto is a consummate inventor of the most
complicated mechanisms.
He has
already demonstrated his capacity as a child
prodigy, as he learnt to read at two years and seven
months and soon displayed a great love for physics
and math books, as well as the narrative of Siberian
author Vasili Shutshin.
When his
teachers perceived his intellectual capacity, they
advanced him three years and now, without help, he
is learning the manuals corresponding to the final
years of secondary school.
“He’s a
genius, he has a talent for everything, as he’s not
only an inventor but also paints, composes music and
writes poetry and prose,” a fascinated Nina Ilichova,
dean of the State University of Altai, told a
television channel. (Taken from the digital press)
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