Solar-Powered Overhead Projector Will Help Teach Reading
This is a great example of using green-technology to do good.
The projector is built to withstand some rough handling and costs only about $50. A roll of microfilm, which can hold about 10,000 pages, costs another $10.
Via Daily Times.
Update:
Thanks to Misty and her comments we have now added the correct photo to this post.
A solar-powered overhead projector will help teach reading in poor, rural African and Asian communities without electricity, the non-profit group that invented it said.
The “kinkajou” projects text and images on a wall. It has been tested successfully in 45 villages in Mali and organizers hope to introduce the projector in India and Bangladesh, according to Design that Matters (DtM), a non-profit group associated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The projector is built to withstand some rough handling and costs only about $50. A roll of microfilm, which can hold about 10,000 pages, costs another $10.
Via Daily Times.
Update:
Thanks to Misty and her comments we have now added the correct photo to this post.
5 Comments. Add your comments!
Wow, first DtM unveiled their $100 wind-up laptop for 100 dollars and now this? Pretty impressive.
By Nathan, at 12:48 PM, December 05, 2005
The $100 dollar laptop was created by MIT's media lab. The solar powered projector is a DtM product.
By Anonymous, at 1:26 PM, December 05, 2005
True enough, true enough. I got a bit ahead of myself there. Thanks Anon.
By Nathan, at 10:36 AM, December 06, 2005
I wonder why the Daily Times (and in turn, Greenthinkers) used a picture of what looks like an Epson PowerLite 820p, an LCD, multimedia projector that goes for at least $1300 us, and consumes way more power the LED/film projector DtM designed, and can be viewed at their webpage:
http://www.designthatmatters.org/k2/
By misty, at 4:28 PM, December 06, 2005
Good question!
I was trusting the Daily Times...and now I am trusting that you are correct!
The link you provide does look right... I will have to add the correct photo to the post.
By Scott, at 6:11 PM, December 06, 2005
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