Ann Makosinski

Ann Makosinski is an inventor and Canadian student. She is half Filipin and half Polish; half scientist and half artist. She is barely 20 years old and a scientist since she was twelve. Her adventure took a leap when, at the age of 15, she decided to create a lantern for one of her friends from the Philippines who had no light in her home. The result was a particular light bulb that works thanks to the heat of the body. "My friend could not have electricity in her house, therefore, she did not have light to study at night. So I came up with the idea of ​​inventing something to generate electricity without using batteries. This is how Hollow flashlight was born, "says the young scientist. The technology used in the development of this flashlight comes from the Peltier-Seebeck effect, which allows to create electricity from the temperature difference between two surfaces. This invention allowed her to stand out in the Science Fair of Google and the International Science and Engineering Fair Intel. Even then, Forbes magazine highlighted her as one of the youngest inventors in the world. But that was not all, since later the scientist created another object: a cup that uses thermoelectric generators to take advantage of the excess of heat of the coffee. This project was called as e-Drink and allows, with the energy obtained, to load mobiles and musical devices. "I always did science projects. Making these projects was not easy. They involved long hours of work after school. I had to apply the technology to the electronic field, but I'm not an expert in that. So, all this was a learning process’’, she says.  "Combining science and art is very important to me. I try to live that way: I study arts and then I come home to work on my science projects’’, she says. In your opinion, this is not new. In ancient times the unification of both concepts was not strange. Nowadays, the young woman is working on a new version of her flashlight. In parallel, she studies English literature at the University of British Columbia
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