The Playpump – innovation and inspiration conspire to solve myriad problems

Will be keen to keep in touch with your innovations. Very good work.

Chitra Vishwanath

www.inika.com/chitra

www.rainwaterclub.org

Chitra Vishwanath

- February 3, 2009 @ 07:02 am PST

Awesome... so, let me get this straight, it's NOT child labor if you paint the machinery in bright colors and put it on a playground? AND you don't even have to pay the pitiful wages child labor earns around the world?

Since most playground merry-go-round toys are mostly idle, only rarely being used for a few minutes at a time during recess periods or after school hours for a public playground, this device will require "encouragement" for it to be used enough to serve a purpose besides public relations. So, basically, you're going to have school officials telling children to go turn a wheel to pump water during their breaks from school.

Dress it up all you want, it is what it is.

Eddie Sarphie

- June 16, 2009 @ 10:06 am PDT

To get a more realistic appraisal of the worth of this project you may go to http://mb-soft.com/public2/pumptw1.html and look up play pump (use browser Find function on a long rambling page). You will get a different perspective on this toy. For $7,000 this play pump toy solves precious little. It secures income for its manufacturers and distributors while it is priced out of reach of anybody it allegedly serves.

(It is a bit like American health care: if you do not die because of your illness you will pain because of medical bankruptcy due to the remuneration of care providers (and their legal liability insurances))

You do not want to get this toy for yourself for $7,000 upwards (recently innovated price of $15,000)!!! Now imagine selling it to villagers who live on $1 a day. OUTRAGEOUS. OUTRAGEOUS and once more OUTRAGEOUS.

For a more detailed discussion why it is also useless you may visit the link.

Just imagine yourself a kid yoked and laboring as an ass/ox. In the heat. You love it.

Funny.

nehopsa

- June 21, 2009 @ 09:06 pm PDT