KofiGadget

It was like a dream to see myself and my bicycle float on the sea. What a wao! Kofi is riding on the sea, I told myself. It all started in my quest to reviewing and putting to test new inventions, I met Frank Darko, a 27year old student who resides in Takoradi in the Western Region of Ghana.    An interesting invention he calls a trifad which had caught the attention of the world through BBC was the trending news then. The Trifad as he calls it is bicycle that moves on water. Frank told me he designed the bicycles that move on water for school kids in deprived communities. "I was watching a documentary and I saw school children swimming to cross a river before going to school at the next village. The children had to wait to be dried before wearing their school uniform. They do this every day. When I saw that I said to myself how can we help these children with such an issue. The first solution that came to my mind was the construction of a bridge. That was ...

Yes I am a phone addict. But am I becoming a Junkie ? Jumping from Facebook to WhatsApp, to YouTube, to everything internet on my phone. The first thing I do when I wake up from bed is to check my phone for messages or calls I could not pick while in the “wonderland” and the phone is the last thing before I get to bed. Obviously, there are some serious ramifications to having a cell phone habit. But mine is some way, I think. Yes in the discharge of my duties as a journalist, I do accept that the phone plays a key role but do I become a slave to my phone? Just thinking aloud. I must admit that I drive text or WhatsApp most of the time.   According to the US Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention , mobile phone use is partially to blame for the distracted driving that kills an estimated nine people each day and injures more than 1,000. The prevalence of texting while driving has reached epidemic proportions. A 2010 study by the Pew Research Center said nearly h...