Sixth-grader's bubble invention eliminates needles

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By LEVI PULKKINEN
P-I REPORTER

FEDERAL WAY -- Sitting on a desk in his middle school classroom, sixth-grader James Gentry is confident and curious.

Cradled in his hands is another hand, a yellow one made with a wad of tissue packed into one of his mother's dishwashing gloves. Clear packing tape holds a dime-size dot to the wrist of the faux-paw.

That dot -- a Bubble Wrap bubble packed with glue -- could be James' ticket to New York, to scientific stardom. It's his entry in a Sealed Air Corp. young inventor competition, and James is one of 15 semifinalists.

His creation: medicine-filled bubbles that leach through the skin, eliminating the need for needles. James said he hopes to create a painless injection, a godsend to children and squeamish adults.

"I'm hoping it will actually work by next year, so I don't have to take a shot," the 12-year-old said. "I do not like shots."

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[annabanana]

1. I like this kid!

He doesn't like shots... so he invents an alternative.

[Pavulon]

2. pneumatic injection?

cool for the kid. But like wireless electricity from mit last year, it is recycled. from tesla.

[Kutjara]

3. "faux paw"

You just know the journalist has been saving that one up for years, waiting for right opportunity to use it.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. faux-paw

:thumbsup:

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Someone on the copy desk just got fired

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. hee hee

Radical.

[calmblueocean]

5. Awesome!

I bet mom and dad are beaming.

[frogcycle]

6. how is it different from the "patch" ??

[951-Riverside]

9. "medicine-filled bubbles that leach through the skin, eliminating the need for needles."

Holy crap that seems scary if abused.

[The Straight Story]

10. Can you use it to inject beer

:)

[Gman]

11. I was thinking Jack Daniels

[Sanctified]

12. I was thinking Heroine, track marks are a bitch.