16 March 2011

Rural Innovators ~ India's Honeybee Pollenators!

Thanks to Professor Anil Gupta for pointing to this excellent slideshow in Rediff on 24 amazing innovations from rural India...
"India's rural innovators have proved that ordinary people are indeed capable of extraordinary inventions. Despite many constraints -- lack of education and severe cash crunch -- most of them have succeeded in using technology cost-effectively to build ingenious products. [...] The exhibition is organised by the National Innovation Foundation (NIF), a grant-in-aid institute under the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The mission of NIF is to make India a global leader in sustainable technologies by building upon genius of grassroots technological innovators and traditional knowledge holders."
Some of my favorites include low-loss floating soap...Labor-saving bamboo processor...
Off-grid LPG-powered iron...
The Solar Mosquito Destroyer!
The clean and effective smokeless cooking stove...

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