California teen invents device that could charge a cell phone in 20 seconds

Or maybe not. Here are some previous submissions of the same story:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5730887 <- moderate discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5737910

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5738327

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5738595

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5741949

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5742227

I thought it was an Indian (or maybe Chinese) 3 year old - oh no that was probably the Daily Mail.

All nonsense of course. I suppose it does no good to wonder why such gets posted here on HN.