GIZMO KID in gandhinagar

GIZMO KID

His development would be behind schedule, but 3-yr-old with genetic disorder has zapped everyone with the ease he uses gadgets
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At his birth, the doctor had said his development will run a year ‘behind schedule’. Maharshi, an achondroplastic child, has proved to be the opposite. He has zapped his parents and doctors alike by being year ahead in schedule in development of brain, intelligence and grasping power. The gizmo-loving three-year-old can operate almost all electronic gadgets. No, he hasn’t been taught about them, say his parents Atul and Dharni. His favourite is the iPhone.
Although Atul, a Gujarat Technological University employee does not possess an iPhone, he is forced to borrow it from a colleague some days to calm Maharshi’s tantrums. He is inconsolable when the phone is returned, says Atul. “He has seen the iPhone with a relative and learnt operating it instantly, surprising us all,” says the father. We tested him with a new phone and he clicked!
Not only the iPhone, Maharshi, they say, can operate any electronic gadget, can click pictures on camera, record, open program files in a computer and select and play a desired song on his father’s mobile phone memory.
Sights and sounds kind of get embedded in his memory. Dharni says her son cannot read, but “remembers nursery rhymes by their page numbers”. He is the blue-eyed boy of Polytechnic Staff Quarters, Gandhinagar. Kids in the neighbourhood love to see him re-enact scenes from the hit film 3 idiots