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Mobile Phone Ingenuity in Africa
This last week I had the opportunity to catch up with one of my favorite bloggers, Jan Chipchase, while we spoke together on a panel at the Global Philanthropy Forum. Jan works for Nokia as what can...
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AfriGadget makes Time Magazine’s “50 best sites for 2008″ list.
We just received some great news. AfriGadget was included in Time Magazine’s list of 50 best sites for 2008. This is quite an honor especially in light of the fact that AfriGadget is run entirely by...
View Article18 year old self-taught electronics “genius” invents mobile phone-based...
Morris Mbetsa, an 18 year old self-taught inventor with no formal electronics training from the coastal tourist town of Mombasa on the Indian Ocean in Kenya, has invented the “Block & Track”, a...
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A Ugandan Housewife’s Homemade Mobile Phone Charger
She uses ordinary size D batteries that are readily available in the village to power radios and torches. She wraped five (5) batteries together, then removed the plug from the phone charger and...
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Liberia’s Blackboard Blogger
Alfred Sirleaf is an analog blogger. He take runs the “Daily News”, a news hut by the side of a major road in the middle of Monrovia. He started it a number of years ago, stating that he wanted to get...
View ArticleSimon Mwaura’s Mobile Remote Control Inventions
Simon has hardwired a way to open and lock his door remotely via his phone, as well as get tea brewing and other manual and remote tasks. The video speaks for itself, so I’m not going to say anything...
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Charging mobile phones with bikes and scrap
Just last week two African inventors won recognition for inventions that involved scrap, bicycles and mobile phones. William Kamkwamba grew up as a farmer in Malawi, at the age of just 14, he had built...
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A Locally Fabricated Radio Station at MFA
I’m a sucker for radios and antennas, and was just so excited to see the guys from Accra Polytechnic at Maker Faire Africa. Hayford Bempong, David Celestin and Michael Amankwanor are three members of...
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Giving the FLAP bag to some electricians
This is part of an ongoing series of posts on the FLAP bag project, a collaborative effort by Timbuk2, Portable Light and Pop!Tech. We at AfriGadget are helping to field-test these bags that have solar...
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Nokia: Bicycle Charger Kit for Mobiles
There was a major announcement today from Nokia about the release of cheap phones for the emerging markets, featuring dual sims and the ever useful LED flashlight. What is even more interesting is that...
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