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News: Urine-powered Generator
Four teenage girls have invented a urine-powered generator. They presented their invention at the fourth annual Maker Faire Africa, Lagos, Nigeria. -
article: Ethiopian kids hack tablet PCs in 5 months, without instruction
About a new experiment by One Laptop Per Child:
"We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He'd never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were ( Read more... )
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