Ishaan’s Invisiboard

He wasn’t trying to build an invention. He just wanted to escape the daily tease-fest at school where his ADHD made him the class clown by accident.

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One day, tired of feeling exposed and distracted, Ishaan had an idea. “What if I could be invisible in class? Just for a bit.” He didn’t mean magic. He meant invention.

 

And he was 12 years old.

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Using an old whiteboard, a smartphone camera, and a layer of see-through screen material from a broken LCD, he started building what he called the Invisiboard. With help from YouTube tutorials on light refraction and camouflaging tech, Ishaan created a projection system where, when you sat behind the board, it matched and reflected the classroom background—making you nearly ‘vanish’.

 

When he first demoed it during show-and-tell, his classmates gasped. Not only did it “disappear” him—it also turned into a writing screen with glow-in-the-dark pens.

 

Ishaan didn’t expect what happened next: kids who used to laugh at him now asked to try it. Teachers found it useful for kids with sensory overload. One child with autism said it made her feel calm. His board became not just a science marvel, but an empathy tool.

 

Ishaan’s project is now being adapted into a real assistive prototype with help from a local ed-tech incubator.

 

Did You Know? Camouflage tech inspired by cephalopods (like octopuses) is being studied for adaptive projection surfaces.

 

Ishaan says, “I didn’t want to disappear forever. Just until I could feel seen the right way.”