Oh, Varian's really good at that too. He... once built a whole bunch of automatons after only seeing one working once.

[Nnnnnnever mind the fact that he built those automatons to help him attack Corona! Details are not needed!]

He'd make these little balls filled with different chemicals that could do a lot of different things! Sticking someone's feet to the floor, making clouds that you could run away in... he's a really smart kid. He even managed to translate an ancient scroll left behind by this really famous inventor from way in the past!