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ACT1 - Mission 1: Choose a hero to shadow
The hero I chose is called Arvind Gupta. A brief overview of his work can be found on this site. I must admit I wasn't too impressed when I first read of his idea of making toys out of trash. Don't children often use any kind of material in order to invent something they can play with? I remember doing that a lot when I was younger.
I went to his site to take a look at the toys he created and discovered this huge list of toys (you can also find a very impressive list of books by Gupta). The instant when I scrolled down to the end of the site, I was simply blown away by the amount of details and creativity Arvind Gupta put into his creations. I think that he's one of the best innovators I've seen throughout the years. The fact that he only uses trash and common tools makes his inventions even more impressive.
Another pretty nice fact which caught my attention is this small part from Gupta's Wikipedia article: "Gupta's website holds instructions, including short video clips on YouTube, in a number of languages, for making hundreds of improvised toys, which he makes available freely without copyright restrictions." After reading his article I decided to look for him on Facebook and found his page. I'm now following him on Facebook in order to keep up with his future toys, books, videos and updates in general.
I must admit that I'm personally really looking forward to seeing more of his toys and creations.
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Comment by Katrin Ziegler on April 29, 2012 at 5:42pm
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I thought about writing my task about him, too :) I also saw him on TED today - he's a genius!
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