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Low-tech Inventions That Help Change Lives

Posted by Zonk on from the best-thing-since-the-shoelace dept.

angelaelle writes "The current issue of Popular Mechanics is featuring their Breakthrough Awards program for inventors. Some of the winning inventions help improve the living conditions for people in third world countries using low-tech materials and assembly methods. Technologies like this cookstove for people in Darfur, and in the case of this Windbelt developed by Shawn Frayne, could be used to provide cheap, clean energy alternatives. The website features fascinating, inspiring videos talking about the inventor's 'eureka moment', focusing on the inventor as well as the technology."

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  1. look like ruby code to me! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ugly, shitty, unworkable..

  2. Re:agfaer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Shaun Earsome gobbles up nutsacks like he gobbles up sperm... in a hurry!

  3. imagine what we could find by SoyChemist · · Score: 0, Troll

    So much great science could come from sifting through old peer reviewed literature and picking up where old scientists left off.

  4. Re:#1 invention by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The condom should be at the top of that list...

    Or, for purposes of not ending up with a child, just have an abortion. If that doesn't count as an invention then let's put the coat hanger at the top of the list, as well as the gun and knife since those kill people too.

  5. Re:Hexayurts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This site smacks of hippie collectivism/environmentalism rather than Slashdot-approved OSS libertarianism.

    Just give a prominent link to the damn build specs already, don't burden users with burning man / shelter / refugee bafflegab.