Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Swiss watchmaker Jaquet Droz recently unveiled a name signing machine, which replicates your signature to perfection. It costs US$365,000 (Approx. Shs1.3 billion). The target market includes celebrities or other famous people who spend a lot of time signing documents, and busy business people who do …
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1971, Netherlands | AFP | A controversial suicide pod that enables its occupant to kill themselves at a press of a button went on display at Amsterdam funeral show on Saturday. Called the “Sarco”, short for sarcophagus, the 3D-printed machine invented by Australian euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke and Dutch designer Alexander …
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Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA | Agnes Atiang was in line for a breast operation at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala when we spoke. Her story should have been one of double tragedy. Instead, it was one of hope. An X-ray at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital had revealed that the …
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Kinshasa, DR Congo | AFP | DR Congo’s electoral body trumpeted on Tuesday the arrival of the first voting machines from South Korea for long-delayed elections that the government has pledged to hold in December. The vote is supposed to bring about the belated departure of President Joseph Kabila, in power …
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VIDEO: Man creates cheap welding machine Kampala, Uganda | NTV UGANDA | The cost of electricity is quite high in Uganda and this makes life hard for small manufacturers and artisans who need electricity to earn a living. To get around the issue of costly power bills, Brian Njuuba, a plumber …
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By Patrick Kagenda A new clinical gadget, MyT4CD4, which is being marketed as the latest CD4-testing gadget has hit the Ugandan market. The sellers of the gadget say it is “a rapid, service-free, Point-of-Care CD4 test that provides quantitative CD4 results in 10 minutes and is the fastest CD4 test …
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