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Young inventor

COMPILED BY R. KRITHIKA

PHOTO: AP

ROSENBERGER: Low cost cosmetic skin.

His parents work to find prosthetic limbs for amputees in Africa and 15-year-old Grayson Rosenberger wanted to help too. His effort to make the prosthetic limb looked more realistic which won him the first prize in Sealed Air Corp.'s inaugural Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventors. Grayson used the branded packaging material, Bubble Wrap, to develop low-cost cosmetic skin for prosthetic limbs. Using a heat gun, he moulded the Bubble Wrap around the steel of the limb so that it got the tone and shape of muscle. AP quoted Rosenberger as saying that his invention should benefit amputees in Africa who are viewed strangely because they have to "walk around with an open metal rod" as a leg. "They're looked at freakishly. I hope this will let them walk out their door and feel normal."

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