We all are born different so are our thoughts and so is technology. There has been changes that takes our breathe away, there has been change that takes us away but there are some change that simply makes us smile and make us believe in individual to be part of change itself. Before feedly, I used to use Google Reader I guess (just trying hard to remember without googling), I used to add feeds there and just go through technical blogs, most of the time it was marking all as read but sometimes I was reading, nevertheless it was my steps towards what I am doing now.
In those days, once I got to know a site called kickstarter. It was like wow!!!, ones imagination --> collective support and boom ---> reality. Its algorithm was quite simple as making a cup of tea?? The most valuable part of kickstarter for me was ideas that people posted which was simple and highly applicable with low or no cost but that can make difference. When I was kid I remember seeing a radio in Africa that could play without batteries, its source was a handle attached to radio and one should just rotate it, it was so simple yet we couldn't do that, we all played with toys with rotating keys but never understood it.
Soccket
Similarly there was project on kickstarter called soccket. Its a football with some wiring inside, so when kids started playing with it, the ball gets charged (kinetic --> electrical energy) so when they leave for home they can read with it, isn't it amazing, the same round playing ball slightly heavy can help you play and read :-)
A 30 minutes of play can roughly have 3 hrs of light??, especially targeted for developing nation, we are sure it will help lot of people not only directly but to make everyone think if they could so something simple yet game changing.
GravityLight
Similarly we came across project called GravityLight, so basically its a bulb which is attached with a weight and as the weight lowers down there is rotation and its light up until the weight is completely down and after that we just have to push the weight up and get the light again for FREE.
These are just an examples of how people see things in different ways, its not like apple products making dent in universe nor we have people engage in googling but these are ordinary people with simple, elegant yet powerful change that even when its part of discussion will bring smile to our face.
In those days, once I got to know a site called kickstarter. It was like wow!!!, ones imagination --> collective support and boom ---> reality. Its algorithm was quite simple as making a cup of tea?? The most valuable part of kickstarter for me was ideas that people posted which was simple and highly applicable with low or no cost but that can make difference. When I was kid I remember seeing a radio in Africa that could play without batteries, its source was a handle attached to radio and one should just rotate it, it was so simple yet we couldn't do that, we all played with toys with rotating keys but never understood it.
Soccket
Similarly there was project on kickstarter called soccket. Its a football with some wiring inside, so when kids started playing with it, the ball gets charged (kinetic --> electrical energy) so when they leave for home they can read with it, isn't it amazing, the same round playing ball slightly heavy can help you play and read :-)
A 30 minutes of play can roughly have 3 hrs of light??, especially targeted for developing nation, we are sure it will help lot of people not only directly but to make everyone think if they could so something simple yet game changing.
GravityLight
Similarly we came across project called GravityLight, so basically its a bulb which is attached with a weight and as the weight lowers down there is rotation and its light up until the weight is completely down and after that we just have to push the weight up and get the light again for FREE.
These are just an examples of how people see things in different ways, its not like apple products making dent in universe nor we have people engage in googling but these are ordinary people with simple, elegant yet powerful change that even when its part of discussion will bring smile to our face.
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