Meet Callie, the 7-year-old Manchester inventor who beat more than 1,600 young competitors with a machine that combines a task dispenser and rubber-duck launcher

Seven-year-old Callie from Manchester has won a nationwide invention competition after creating the “Task Firing Driveable Bath,” an imaginative machine designed to help Little Alex Horne become a better Taskmaster’s Assistant. The invention transforms an ordinary bathtub into a moving task-dispensing machine and includes a playful rubber-duck dispenser. Supported by the UK Intellectual Property Office, the competition attracted more than 1,600 young inventors aged four to 11 from across the UK, along with international entries.