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Water Talkie
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To succeed in life we must get a good education,
study hard and go to college, right? Well yes, but going on a
vacation helps. What?, we hear you say? A vacation? Yes holiday!
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Kid inventor Richie Stachowski was vacationing
in Hawaii when he came up with an invention that changed his
life.
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11 year old, Richie was annoyed that he couldn't
talk to his father while underwater snorkeling off the coast of
Hawaii. Richie immediately he started thinking about ways
talking could be possible under the oxygen free world of
underwater.
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Richie used a combination of Internet research
and several designs to arrive at what would be a fun and unique
toy. He then withdrew all his savings (a whopping $267!) and
started building a workable prototype.
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Sure enough, the problem that Richie tried to
fix, namely talking underwater, was solved. His product was
called Water Talkies and become a big success selling at major
retailers like Wal-Mart, Target, K-Mart and Toys"R"Us in over 13
countries. Rich continued to invent more water toys and he
developed his own company to market his inventions. At the age
of 13, he sold his company for over $1 million dollars! He
currently holds 4 patents and is on the Student Board of the
National Gallery for America's Young Inventors.
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Who says that vacations are just for laying
around!
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