The kid’s 15 minutes of fame continues.\u00c2\u00a0 And if at first I’m thinking the acolydes are a bit much, the pettiness of the detractors strikes me as needing a ramp-up in response.<\/p>\n
Ahmed Mohamed to Larry Wilmore: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIt was kind of cool\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 to be arrested \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbecause I knew I was innocent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.<\/a><\/p>\n Charming kid all around.\u00c2\u00a0 (Though somewhere else in some other media appearance it’s reported by his detractors that he was being “coached” by his sister.)<\/p>\n His next invention will not involve any elements of time-keeping. As he told Wilmore, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s looking into building a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153side hoverboard\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that is, unlike the current models which move from back to front, Ahmed is interested in creating one that is able to move from side to side. He might not have too much trouble \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Ahmed told Wilmore that building the clock that got him arrested was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153really simple\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already \u00e2\u20ac\u0153built more stuff that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very complicated.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Interesting, as Richard Dawkins and some youtube Internet user has exposed the fact that the kid’s “invention” is… technically speaking… not impressive in the slightest.\u00c2\u00a0 Which for them adds up to nefarious-ness.\u00c2\u00a0 See the comments section in this Huffington Post- published article on “I can relate”<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (also note the bizarre facts of commenters getting hung up on the fact that the kid’s “clock” was not a school science project but purely extra-curricular).\u00c2\u00a0 To everyone else, the … unimpressiveness of the creation… means he’s not going to be a child prodigy up for early admission to MIT…. I suppose he now has a good support system to continue apace in that direction<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 (And reminisces from Steve Wozniak<\/a>.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Note something<\/a>:<\/p>\n