Kids supposedly do the darndest things (okay, the phrase is "say" but bear with us), but we guarantee you most of those darn things aren't this impressive. A 9-year old boy from Singapore named Lim Ding Wen passes the time by writing iPhone and iPod touch applications which get approved and become available on the Apple App Store. Lim already knows six programming languages. He learned this by reading books provided by his father, who works at a technology firm which also makes iPhone apps. His father says they competatively compare download counts with one another.

Lim's latest app is a drawing program called Doodle Kids (iTunes link), which he made for his younger sisters. It's like a colorful Etch A Sketch, but it (thankfully) works by touch instead of by knobs. Each time you touch the screen with your finger, the app draws with one of a handful of random colorful patterns, as pictured above. When you want to start over, you shake the phone and it clears away.

Lim is already working on his next app, a game called Invader Wars. We'd advise you not fret too much that your child isn't doing something like this (yet); this is pretty unusual, okay?

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