New Delhi: This is a gadget story with a difference. It's something an Indian dreamed up. We kick off our series on grassroots innovators with a story about an old man and a river.
He talks about growing up in his village and how floods marooned his village ruined his home.
Necessity they say, is the mother of invention. When floods ravaged Mohammad's village, he still found a way to survive.
He calls it the Noor bicycle. On land, it's just a bike while in water it becomes a boat. In a nation of a million cyclists - it took one man to think out of the box and he even built in some special effects.
The cycle goes front and back. If it gets stuck just pedal backwards and it will reverse.
Air floats keep the bike from sinking and fan blades propel it forward.
It took five years and Rs 6,000 to perfect. The idea's brilliant - worthy of an IIT engineer. Yet, Mohammad's just a simple villager. Geniuses like him live all around us. And over the next few weeks –you will meet a lot of them.
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