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Arrested 14 year old boy in Texas didn’t invent his own alarm clock.

Accepted submission by at 2015-09-19 00:18:24
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Amhed’s clock was invented, and built, by Micronta, a Radio Shack subsidiary. Catalog number 63 756. So there you have it folks, Ahmed did not invent, nor build a clock. He took apart an existing clock, and transplanted the guts into a pencil box, and claimed it was his own creation. He explains that he closed up the box with a piece of cord because he didn’t want it to look suspicious. I’m curious, why would “looking suspicious” have even crossed his mind?
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http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/ [artvoice.com]


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