I’m always looking for new uses of mobile devices, which led me to discover the AfriGadget website. Its tagline is “AfriGadget: solving everyday problems with African ingenuity”. Recently there was a story of young Pascal Katana (above) of Kenya, who invented a device that electronically calls fish using their own feeding sounds, and then uses a mobile phone to alert the owner of the net via SMS that it is filled with fish. This electronic device that “automates” fishing, is described as follows:
“The trap employs amplification of the sound made by fish while feeding. The acoustic signals are radiated and attract other fish who head toward the direction of the source thinking there is food there.
Once a good catch is detected by a net weighing mechanism, it triggers a GPRS/GSM device attatched to the system and the fisherman gets a call/sms informing him that his catch is ready. Pascal is in the process of developing a by-catch control system which will ensure that his contraption doesn’t cause overfishing.”
Ingenious!
Read about other African inventions in this interesting website. (Via (GW)
Fish ‘call’ the Fisherman |AfriGadget | Obie | 21 July 2009
“The trap employs amplification of the sound made by fish while feeding. The acoustic signals are radiated and attract other fish who head toward the direction of the source thinking there is food there.
Once a good catch is detected by a net weighing mechanism, it triggers a GPRS/GSM device attatched to the system and the fisherman gets a call/sms informing him that his catch is ready. Pascal is in the process of developing a by-catch control system which will ensure that his contraption doesn’t cause overfishing.”
Ingenious!
Read about other African inventions in this interesting website. (Via (GW)
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