Industrialist Anand Mahindra shared a video of an ingenious homemade invention (a jugaad) to pick fruit from trees. The video posted to his official Twitter account has been viewed more than 400,000 times and internet users have been very impressed with the inventor’s out-of-the-box thinking.
Not an earth-shattering invention. But I’m excited because it shows a growing culture of ‘tinkering’. America became a powerhouse of inventiveness because of the habit of many experimenting in their basement/garage workshops. Tinkerers can become titans of innovation. pic.twitter.com/M0GCW33nq7
— anand mahindra (@anandmahindra) June 2, 2022
The video shows an elderly man using a long stick with a plastic bottle on the end. The man trying to pick fruit from the tree uses this device where the bottle opens and closes around the fruit. This keeps it in the bottle for easy extraction. The video also shows how exactly the man made it.
Mahindra tweeted the video with the caption: “Not an earth-shattering invention. But I’m excited because it shows a growing culture of ‘tinkering’. America became a powerhouse of inventiveness because of the habit of many experimenting in their basement/garage workshops. Tinkerers can become titans of innovation.”
The Mahindra Group chairman has been known to share videos from all over India showing Indian ingenuity. In April, he posted a video of the “coolest thing” he’d seen in a long time. The video showed a man driving a modified vehicle resembling a Batmobile on an Indian road carrying dairy products in the vehicle.
“I’m not sure if his vehicle is road compliant, but I hope his passion for wheels goes unregulated… This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time. I want to meet this road warrior,” said Mr Mahindra said. chairman said.
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