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Inventor of Low Tech Fridge Wins Award

Posted by michael on from the swamp-cooler dept.

juju2112 writes "Mohammed Bah Abba of Nigeria won a Rolex award for his pot-in-pot invention. Here's how it works. You take a smaller pot and put it inside a larger pot. Fill the space in between them with wet sand, and cover the top with a wet cloth. When the water evaporates, it pulls the heat out with it, making the inside cold. It's a natural, cheap, easy-to-make refrigerator."

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  1. First Post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    First POST!

  2. Re:This is New? by Memetic · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nope. SCO's patent has been online for at least 5 years.

    20 seconds to post? I'll type down here for a while to waste time.....

  3. YOU SO GODDAMN FAIL IT, TWAT BUBBLE! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  4. SPANISH SPEAKERS, I NEED YOUR HELP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Okay after a massive night of trolling the international Slashdots: slashdot.jp and barrapunto.com, I received a few responses. One of the posts is here. Could somebody translate that? I can see the word "the dinosaur", but I don't know what the rest of the gibberish is. Perhaps the dude is saying "You are a mother fucker, Megalozilla. The dinosaur something"? Babelfish is no help.

  5. Re:keeping beer cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, as long as you don't spray your shorts. That'd be nasty.

  6. This brings to mind several things... by Gnascher · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Resistance is futile, you WILL be Google-able

    2. I for one welcome our Google Overlord

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    It's not my fault! It was this way when I got here.
  7. Better Fragging? by nonmaskable · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wonder how many more FPS I could out of my video card with one of these attached.