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I totally love the red and blue pills in Morpheus' hands. http://www.inhabitots.com/2010/08/03/amazing-lego-cubedudes-by-pixar-animator-angus-maclane/cubedude6/

How about... 5 fun things you can do with your baby's placenta!!?!?!?!?!? (from the same site as this "article"). I suppose any excuse to beat up on "evil industry" will always fly on Slashdot.
    Next thing you know there'll be the usual litany of +5 insightfuls about how "big media" (led by Catie Couric) regularly pumps out pro-insecticide propaganda. No I'm not joking.. the regular scare pieces about anything that might be remotely toxic are the product of "big pesticide" to bore us to death with obviously untrue hysteria so that we accidentally let them get away with poisoning all of us!

While this seems like a great idea for helping babies (I'm not a doctor), why can't they just publish the idea so everyone can benefit instead of just the cities / villages / towns / areas / families / whatever that can afford to buy one? The patent part is all about making money. At the expense of dying children.

Did you RTFA?
They're not building a centrifuge out of salad spinners.

Here's an incomplete list of features they've included:
"an electric heating system, air circulation, an air controller, various alarms that monitor the baby's temperature, etc."
Now look at this picture and tell me that it seems like something you can jury rig in a developing country.

P.S. An appeal to emotion isn't actually an argument.

I say, chain them to the PlayPump!
        http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/03/05/play-pump-the-merry-go-round-water-pump/

        -dZ.

It's a merry-go-round. Kids spin around, laugh, and spin some more all the time at local parks in the States. Even in China and Malaysia, when they're not manufacturing Nikes for pennies per hour, I'm sure they might like to feel like normal children, and play outside on a merry-go-round.

If it suits you to be a non-contributing little shit and sneer at anyone who tries, then so be it. But at least stay quiet while you're doing it.

Yes, look at the horrible child labour going on.

Side note: RTFA. The link was right there!

A pump powered by children playing? I did a double take when I saw that. Then there was a link to it. I tip my hat to the person who thought of that. Bloody ingenious.