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Fancy taking India’s ubiquitous charkha and adding a dash of technology to it, aptly known as the e-charkha. This device produces yarn and does much more than that - it also generates electricity thanks to a maintenance free lead acid battery located at the bottom which doubles up as an inverter.

By Evan Ackerman SpaceX’s Falcon 1 rocket successfully entered low Earth orbit yesterday, making it the first privately funded liquid fuel rocket to reach orbit with a payload. The Falcon 1 is a two stage rocket powered by liquid oxygen and liquid kerosene capable of lifting about 450 kg into low orbit at a cost of about $7 million.

Lighting Africa Section: SOLAR POWER — by Nick Rosen, 24 Aug Longer days in Dedougou Hema Cecile is a student in Burkina Fasso, the world’s second poorest country. Thanks to a recent initiative from the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) her studies are more productive now.

It was the duty of my third uncle to fill the lamp with kerosene, which our family would buy by the tin. (Hence the idea of kerosene tin - the rectangular voluminous tin with a hole at one of the corners for us to siphon out the oil.) Each evening all the kids would surround uncle Pang Sing, waiting for him to light the lamp and then we would sit around for him to start telling us stories .