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In Africa, many homes do not have electricity but increasingly everyone has a cell phone. Prepaid cell phone minutes have become a defacto currency in many Afr
by ramabk 14y ago
In Africa, many homes do not have electricity but increasingly everyone has a cell phone. Prepaid cell phone minutes have become a defacto currency in many African countries. Africans are in many ways more acclimated with using privately issued digital currencies (such as M-PESA)...
- tome 14y agoWhere do they charge their phones? Are portable hand-powered generators common, like wind-up radios?
- ramabk 14y agohttp://www.viewchange.org/videos/kenyan-solution-for-charging-mobile-phones http://www.viewchange.org/videos/kenyan-solution-for-chargin...
- pgeorgi 14y agovideo2text: They extend the light machine on bicycles with just enough circuitry to make it suitable as a charger.
- JonnieCache 14y agoHooking up a bicycle dynamo to charge your phone is a popular african hack: http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_on_building_a_windmill.html http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_on_building_a_win...
- slurgfest 14y agoAn unreliable grid, car batteries can also store off-grid power, fancy people have generators