Archive for October, 2007
Low Tech Savior
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Developing nations continue to struggle in the high tech age. Jock Brandis offers low tech solutions to save the world.
Pedal Power Peanut Sheller
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Jock builds a pedal power peanut sheller at a peanut farm in the Philippines. Before Jock’s manual nut sheller peanuts were shelled by hand. In developing nations around the world over four billion hours are spent shelling peanuts by hand. Children and elderly villagers do most of this manual labor sometimes causing severe arthritis.



