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Lateral thinking posted 23rd June 2006

I was in my local organic coffee shop this morning, reading the label on a bottle of One water while waiting for my latte. It turns out that the profits from every bottle go to a South African company which installs PlayPumps. And this is where it get interesting.

PlayPumps are children-powered water pumps. But it’s not slave labour, it’s far more effective and simple than that. The kids are given a roundabout to play on and the roundabout powers a pump, delivering water into a nearby storage tank. Now that’s brilliant lateral thinking.

Pierre Labadie wrote:

Hey,

i’m leading a research on Internet and Music (pretty vague isn’t it ;-) ), and I’d like to talk to you about it… in private ! Could you leave me an email where I can write to you about it ? My adress: labadie.pierre@gmail.com.

Hope to hear from you,

PL.

23 Jun 2006, 12:05 GMT
bruce wrote:

Blimey. That’s genius.

23 Jun 2006, 12:28 GMT
Mike Holloway wrote:

That’s a brilliant idea. They should make one using a zee-saw next.

23 Jun 2006, 13:09 GMT
Richard Harrison wrote:

Personal Value Precedes Network Value!

I guess this an offline example of “The Del.icio.us Lesson” :-).

24 Jun 2006, 01:41 GMT
Science wrote:

I wonder who invented this pimps. I hope our scientists will share African’s experience

6 Jul 2006, 21:24 GMT

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