A Nigerian scientist, Engr. Michael Friday, has come up with an invention aimed at relieving subscribers of telecommunications services of the need to buy recharge cards.
Michael, who met the Director General, National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP), Engr. Danazumi Ibrahim, in Abuja, expressed readiness to patent his invention tagged, ‘Mobile Intercom.’

He explained that the quest to free the country from over-dependence on expensive imported telecom services informed the idea.

He said: “The source of Internet we depend on is in foreign hands. Even our telecommunications companies depend on them. If you want to manufacture a mobile phone, until you buy the operating system chips and insert it on your system, it can never access any of these technologies.

WIFI and Bluetooth are minute ICs embedded in the PCV that makes them work.

“Why don’t we have such a thing here? It is because there is no backing. Late last year, I came up with an application. I was at a function and the moment a bigwig came in, all mobile phones stopped working. And I said to myself, ‘If there is any security issue here, now, everybody is doomed.’

He added: “So, I coded an application that I can use to make calls, send SMS, do video calls and all of that without mobile spectrum, without Internet or network. We have completed it and it is working. Our chip sets can transmit up to 5000 metres, that is about 5 kilometres.”

Friday is a global award winner for developing the smallest storage micro chips in 2009, at a science competition in China. He emerged the overall best scientist in 2009. He is also a two-time award winner of the most outstanding youth in Nigeria in 2009 and 2011.

Cc: lalasticlala

DarkMagic:
We av smart pple in this country..no doubt
If the government can jes invest into this pple

The problem is the government cares less about it's people...

kudos

imagine a confused analog ancient President will be busy looking for soon to be abandoned oil with billions , paying billions to terrorists in that foolish name of scoring political useless points or using billions to create cattle colonies for cow infested brains like him . In many wise Nigerians opinions 'God forbid he wins again'

that's a nice discovery. I just hope private investors looks into it.

I hope he gets investors. I also hope he'll manufacture those chips in Nigeria..

Nigeria needs an industrial revolution

Now when person don come up with better idea, them no go move am to FP.

If na artificial b bs, them rush am to FP

The guy may need to change his name to "mobile intercom goddess"

Hnmmmmm
A device that can transmit across 5000 meters.
The transmitting power would be way too high and unsafe.
No be me go put am near my head.

Bros, I believe the guy is talking about the transmission range sir

Kudos to the young man. These are the brains we need as ministers and commissioners of science and technology,not some dumb fat fool who only produces pencils

DarkMagic:
We av smart pple in this country..no doubt
If the government can jes invest into this pple

Everytime Government Government..... How many people in Silicon Valley waited for the government to invest in them

Justdare:
Hnmmmmm
A device that can transmit across 5000 meters.
The transmitting power would be way too high and unsafe.
No be me go put am near my head.

That's where more hands have to get on deck to ensure the best and brightest of us don't just leave their finest concepts at the crudest level, but does our structure support being that "supportive" of innovation?