Allen Pan (born: December 22, 1989),[1] is an American engineer and YouTuber who is known for his YouTube series Sufficiently Advanced (SA), a science webshow where he invents gadgets that are often related to pop culture.
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Allen created his channel in 2015, Allen Pan. He uploaded his first video in September, 2015, where he makes a Naruto rasengan cosplay prop. His next video is the first in the Sufficiently Advanced series, where he made a replica of Thor's hammer Mjolnir that has an electromagnet that sticks the hammer to the ground, and a fingerprint scanner that turns the electromagnet off when only he grabs it. The Mjolnir video went viral and his next video is thanking everyone for 25K+ subs.
"Sufficiently Advanced" is about Allen inventing advanced gadgets that are either related to pop culture and/or solves a problem or busts a myth. In the videos he goes over the process of inventing in an enthusiastic and humorous fashion. Some gadgets he made in the Sufficiently Advanced series include: lightsabers and plasma blades, a taser Nerf gun, a knife that cuts 333 times a second, a gun that shoots face masks onto people's faces, Hulk hands that can actually smash bricks, a treadmill PS4 controller, an air umbrella (a Kickstarter scam product that became a meme), a reinvention of the soda siphoning backpack from Operation Soda Steal, and more. In 2022, he created a device that allows snakes to walk.[2]
He, alongside William Osman, Peter Sripol, Kevin Kohler (The Backyard Scientist) and Nigel Braun (Nilered) created the Safety Third podcast. Allen appeared since the beginning of the podcast and still is a member today.
Personal life[]
He was born and raised in Illinois and moved to LA to compete in MythBusters: The Search, a reality competition show that was hosted by Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman that was made to determine the hosts for the MythBusters reboot. He did not win. He has a degree in electrical engineering. He also has a younger brother named Alex (born: 2002) who is sometimes featured in his videos.
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- He has been inventing gadgets ever since he was a kid. He even uploaded a video where he makes some of his childhood gadgets.
- His first video's gadget was made as a present for Alex's 13th birthday. He has also made a gadget for his 16th.
- He is a huge fan of anime, Marvel, and video games.
- In 2020, Indiegogo scammers stole footage from Allen's lightsaber videos for their fraudulent campaign. He made a video exposing the scam.
- He owns the Mythbusters trademark.