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]]>Red Bull Basement is a global initiative that seeks to discover new innovations by university students and showcase them to a global audience. The aim of the competition is to inspire innovative technology ideas that can drive positive change in their local communities.
The twins were interviewed on the SABC News and they got to share their inspiration and journey in inventing the x-ray glasses. They spoke about how their high school soccer teammate got hurt back in 2019 and they had to accompany her to the hospital where they had to wait for hours for an x-ray.
The twins had the idea to invent a portable x-ray device shortly after the soccer accident. They first entered the Eskom Expo and unfortunately they didn’t win. The prototype took 2 years to build and the glasses have an infrared camera that takes pictures of the fracture that can be viewed on a small screen on the inside. The scans are then recorded and sent to the doctor.
The twins said the intention behind inventing the glasses is to improve the service at the hospitals starting with their hometown in Hammanskraal and reduce the big spaces occupied by bigger x-ray machines. They also envision their glasses being carried in the medical bags of nurses, paramedics in ambulances and even on the sports field.
Redbull gave the twins a mentor and covered the costs throughout the development process of the prototype. They got to go to Turkey for the Global Finals and they loved interacting with other young innovators. They came in second to contestants from the United States of America. Watch the full interview below.
The twins join other African inventors that have challenged and broken the general assumption that there can be no new inventions from Africa. In Zimbabwe, we have Maxwell Sangulani Chikumbutso who is a self-taught engineer. He is known for having developed a green energy technology that, he asserts, is revolutionary because it converts radio frequencies directly into clean and renewable energy.
Maxwell Chikumbutso created a radio-frequency powered television. This means that there is no power cable and the TV is powered purely by radio waves similar to WiFi and Bluetooth. Watch more on Chikumbutso’s television invention below.
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]]>One of the latest tech advances is the breakthrough in drone creation that was made by a Zimbabwean inventor. The inventor, Maxwell Sangulani Chikumbutso, has created a drone that is powered by airwaves. The unmanned drone weighs 45kg and can cruise at an altitude of 11 000 feet.
The inventor said his drone is named Saith UAV and is aimed at helping the country make an impact in the aviation and hi-tech global entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Chikumbutso, who is surprisingly self-taught, has boasted that his drone possesses some unparalleled capabilities. These include “a flying endurance pursuant to which it reaches a speed of 600km per/hr and a height over 11000 feet above sea level with a carrying capacity of 45Kgs”.
The genius is now working closely with the government and the Air Force of Zimbabwe to get clearance to begin trials.
This drone is not the first invention by the dropout. He has developed a helicopter, drone, electric cars and a green power generating machine that uses radio frequency energy.
No wonder Chikumbutso has stated that their company is one of the few African companies that are thriving in making Africa a technology-driven continent.
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