WHAT do a bicycle that goes faster over bumps, a lever that allows car pedals to be operated by hand and a pedal-powered washing machine have in common?
They are all examples of “deviant research”, so called because they were developed by amateurs trying to solve problems that dog their daily lives, rather than to make money. A , for example, was invented by Remya Jose (pictured), who as a 14-year-old schoolgirl from the Malappuram district of Kerala in south India found that the time it took to wash clothes by hand was getting in the way…
