floating bicycle !
I just read this piece of information at : http://www.ibnlive.com/article.php?id=7372§ion_id=3 (article also pasted below )and its fascinating....... necessity is definitely the mother of invention and this is just another proof of something I believe in so strongly - there is so much of knowledge around, and the perspective of people who have actually been in the problem can make so much of a difference. Second, there is a strong need for India to support grassroot innovations like this and take ideas like this forward with credit - both monetory and othrewise to briiliant people like Saidullah. ----------------------------------------- Necessity they say, is the mother of invention. When floods ravaged Mohammad Saidullah's village, he found a new way to survive. "Nadi ke kinare mera ghar tha. Aus usine mere ghar ko kat diya. (My house was near a river and it was destroyed by the river)," Saidullah says. Saidullah designed a bicycle that can not only travel on l...