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tome
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The Invisible Bank: How Kenya Has Beaten the World...
Where do they charge their phones? Are portable hand-powered generators common, like wind-up radios?
ramabk
on July 4, 2012
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pgeorgi
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video2text: They extend the light machine on bicycles with just enough circuitry to make it suitable as a charger.
JonnieCache
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Hooking up a bicycle dynamo to charge your phone is a popular african hack:
http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_on_building_a_win...
slurgfest
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An unreliable grid, car batteries can also store off-grid power, fancy people have generators
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