March 28, 2005
Long Live Cardboard Boxes
Everyone we met is still using the original cardboard box to store and transport the Kinkajou. One teacher leaves the Kinkajou at a friend's house near the classroom, because the box is too inconvenient to carry on the half-kilometer walk home. The nifty battery pack, on the other hand, is easy to carry, and reminds her of a briefcase. She takes it home every day to charge in the mango grove near her house.
The amazingly long-lived Kinkajou box
Most people didn't consider the Kinkajou handle, well, a handle. It helps that Mali is very dry. A cardboard box in a tropical climate like Cote d'Ivoire would rot to shreds in a few weeks--presumably people would start to notice other ways to carry the projector around.
Posted by Timothy Prestero at March 28, 2005 07:58 PM
