Rich Kao

Compliments of a recent post by Guy Kawasaki, here are a couple of inventions that can change the world and illustrate how much can be done with innovative thinking.

• Pot-in-pot. This is the invention of Mohammed Bah Abba of Nigeria. He is from a family of pot makers and discovered a way to preserve food despite in the country's high temperatures. One earthenware pot is place within another, and the space between the two is filled with sand. Users add water to the sand, and when this water evaporates, the inside pot is cooled.

• Q-Drum

  

  Hans Hendrikse invented this apparatus to enable people in Africa to transport fifty liters of water in a safer, easier, and more hygienic way. Rather than carrying water on their heads, now they roll it along in a drum made of low-density linear polyethylene.

  Me: I LOVE this kind of stuff.  Having worked for a well known "invention company" (i.e 3M), it gets my juices flowing seeing these innovative, practical, lost cost ways of touching and changing lives.  My thinking cap is on as to how we could use these across our various humanitarian platforms.   Thanks Guy, once again.