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I checked your website is really useful, it is not easy to find the adequate gift. Have a question for you, if someone select an item in my wishlist, do you have a system that warm my friends ( in order to not by the same) ?


Yes, once the gift is bought, you get a message and that item is taken off your list.


In Africa, many homes do not have electricity but increasingly everyone has a cell phone. Prepaid cell phone minutes have become a defacto currency in many African countries. Africans are in many ways more acclimated with using privately issued digital currencies (such as M-PESA)...


Where do they charge their phones? Are portable hand-powered generators common, like wind-up radios?



video2text: They extend the light machine on bicycles with just enough circuitry to make it suitable as a charger.


Hooking up a bicycle dynamo to charge your phone is a popular african hack: http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_on_building_a_win...


An unreliable grid, car batteries can also store off-grid power, fancy people have generators


Great explanations!


A genius platform !!!


Google people are always making it happen!!!


The gulf in sales will frustrate Samsung, which has always taken pride in performing well in homeland. Indeed, the company is so sensitive to the Korean market that it reneged on plans to fight the launch of the iPhone 4S there.


Very Good Point ramabk!!!


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