India: “Jugaad” or hack in sorting fruits by street vendor captivates social media
Necessity drives innovation, Indian man achieves efficiency through creativity
In India, a man’s simple yet effective way of sorting fruits by its size is winning praise on social media and people are going bananas over it.
Twitter user, @deep_ami tweeted: "I bet no machine learning can achieve this!"
Further on in the video, the street vendor places two iron rods side by side on cartons. The rods are placed in a way that the distance between them increases from one end to the other in a slanted position. The man places fruits on the rods which roll down and falls into the basket according to the size kept under the rods.
Watch the video here:
In the video, you can see a man placing pomegranates on the rods and it is falling into the right basket.
Replying to the video, another twitter user, @Yatharthmishra_ posted: "Proudly an Indian originated way."
@ramana_brf tweeted: "It is called jugaad. In the West, Appropriate Technology!"
‘Jugaad’, a colloquial Hindi word, which approximately translates as ‘quick fix’ or ‘hack’ - a unique ability to find low-cost, improvised solutions or quick fixes for problems. Since the video is up on social media, it has got around 4 million views.