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6 Questions for Third-World Tech Innovator Jock Brandis

Submitted by strike on Fri, 2007-12-14 17:00
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6 Questions for Third-World Tech Innovator Jock Brandis

?While traveling to help a friend in the Peace Corps a couple years ago, television and movie engineer Jock Brandis had an idea that would take him way beyond his day job: a cheap, open-source, hand-crank peanut sheller to save hours and oil for the cash crop's production in developing nations.?

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