Just a quick point to athe great blog AfriGadget which deals with innovation and creativity in Africa.

AfriGadget is a website dedicated to showcasing African ingenuity. A team of bloggers and readers contribute their pictures, videos and stories from around the continent. The stories of innovation are inspiring. It is a testament to Africans bending the little they have to their will, using creativity to overcome life’s challenges. [snippet from here]

The examples are simply stunning, reaching from farming innovations to camel-milk cooling devices, often combining high tech, low tech and garbage to create useful and simple machines.

The founder of AfriGadget is the same guy who stands behind Ushahidi – Erik Hersman. Here is a small slideshow-presentation of AfriGadget on The World.

Check out the site