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KNUST develops world’s first open-space fire detector

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  • JNC 7 years ago

    I sm impressed. Keep the fire up

  • Grayson Tema 7 years ago

    This item need to be produced and sold to Ghanaians and Abroad.

  • GHANAIAN 7 years ago

    IT IS IMPORTANT TO PATENT THIS PRODUCT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BEFORE IT BECOMES ANOTHER 'KENTE'.

    THE KENTE WHICH COULD HAVE NETTED THIS COUNTRY A LOT OF MONEY WAS LEFT TO THE MERCY OF FAKE ONES. LESSONS MUST BE LEARNT.

    WIT ...
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  • Kojo 7 years ago

    From what range can it detect fire; where are they going to be sited, for example are they going to be in the bush and installed on poles?

    Brilliant.

  • Baba Alhaji de Nima 7 years ago

    Yes. Don't waste time.

  • Tekonline.org 7 years ago

    Keep 'em coming!

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  • Grayson Tema 7 years ago

    Call Dr Frimpong.

  • Pk 7 years ago

    Produce for local and international markets.

  • Dom 7 years ago

    Universities don't produce but invent technology for the industry. It is up to the industry to buy the idea

  • Alex London 7 years ago

    The university must set a company to mass produce the device and market it internationally. It must first be patented

  • TERESA Accra 7 years ago

    Ghanaians need to design more and be more innovative

  • Charles Higgins 7 years ago

    Aren't the parts from China?

  • MAXIM 7 years ago

    Most machines, including aeroplanes and caterpillars, cars, through to embedded systems have some of their component parts imported from different companies that may even be in a different country but are integrated into a fi ...
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  • UnkleP 7 years ago

    that question is not that important. The originality and viability of the idea are what count. Even Futune 500 companies pursue outsourcing and business-level and country-level alliances. No need to do 'everything' at relativ ...
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  • Danny 7 years ago

    Why not? If the part is cheap and can do the work.

  • Annor 7 years ago

    Charles, ur comment shows ur level of ignorance in e world of technology.

  • JB 7 years ago

    You guys should be smart Chineese will copy quickly and will tell the world they have already have in their labs. Individual rich people in Ghana should assist the students to mass produce it. Great innovation

  • Mensah 7 years ago

    Take immediate steps to have them patented

  • Kwaku 7 years ago

    If anyone joins together parts manufactured in China he gets up and says first in the world and the mass with inferiority complex will start hailing him.These things are being produced by basic school children in China.Patent ...
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  • Dr Fred Alottey 7 years ago

    Ei JEALOUSY GO SHAME!

  • Annor 7 years ago

    Kweku, u re a big fool. Excuse my words. Ur comment shows that u dont know anything about engineering. Worldwide, all companies who manufacture machines dont produce all the parts they need. They buy most of the parts assembl ...
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  • minladder 7 years ago

    Ghanaian professor are all stupid and thieves

  • Stephen Donkor, New York. 7 years ago

    Quickly acquire the patent for this awesome invention and beware of the Chinese to avoid an obvious industrial espionage.

  • Nack 7 years ago

    Great job done, but first in the world and refused to give it your native name to reflect your interllingance has miss out.

  • Subject 7 years ago

    It's already in existence,it's nothing new do not get carried away

  • Francs Holland 7 years ago

    Why this jealously if a Ghanaian too it what is wrong about it please let's encourage our own thanks

  • Subject 7 years ago

    Copy and paste university.This is nothing new Ghana open your eyes and minds.

  • NDC IS SATANIC 7 years ago

    Get medical help before you go haywire.

  • ADO I Adda Gilbert 7 years ago

    All the regional fire safety officers should have been part of this launch to assist the young graduates to market and sell their products on the contrary it was the media.

  • Andy 7 years ago

    Thats the reason why kwame Nkrumah built the school for all Ghanaians to exhibit their God gifted talent for the betterment of this great nation

  • Kofi 7 years ago

    Kwame Nkrumah didn't build UST.

  • Atta 7 years ago

    This has already existed
    https://xtralis.com/p.cfm?s=11&p=464

  • RickGH 7 years ago

    And you guys believe this palpable shit of a lie??!! We are so lazy to check things for ourselves. We all sudden jump up and say "produce it for mass market". For f*ck sake learn to Google and see for yourselves

  • Nana Yala LD 7 years ago

    Master this is not patentable . It's s copy cat .

  • Yebo 7 years ago

    They bought it from Dubai. Corruption and plagiarism.

  • Nana 7 years ago

    Well done mates . The nation Ghana is really proud of you. ????????????????

  • Easy Does It 7 years ago

    A few days ago, there was a story about a 400MW gas power station to be built in Tema which was hailed as the world's largest, when countries like Japan have natural gas power plants with well in excess of 3500MW generating ...
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  • WOA Houston 7 years ago

    I am in the Oil & Gas industry in the US and this technology is not new in the industry. What may be new is the material components used. We need to evaluate the reliability and cost effectiveness of the new devices.

  • Mary 7 years ago

    Congratulations, Ghana on the move. Power to the Youth.

  • Francs Holland 7 years ago

    We done guys keep on the good work hopefully government will them develop it better

  • Michael K. Tettevi. 7 years ago

    Thanks for the inventions of fire and smoke detectors. More grease to your elbows. May the new inventions sale throughout the universe for the development of mankind. May the inventors do not relax. May God grant them greater ...
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  • Twum (ksi) 7 years ago

    STOP lying to ghanaians, this is common all over the world.lf you said first in kumasi then maybe, but in the world then you are a big fool

  • SOCRATES 7 years ago

    OUR GHANAIAN INVENTORS NEED SOME TUITION IN BASIC COMMUNICATIONS IN MARKETING THEIR INVENTIONS; E.G. WHAT FIRE DETECTOR IS NOT IN AN "OPEN SPACE"? BY DEFINITION FIRE SPREADS THROUGH SPACE FOR IT TO BE DETECTED BY ANY FIRE DET ...
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  • nana@ 7 years ago

    University of its kind is just coming out with what Chinese elementary pupils are doing and we here clapping our hands.
    This is what they supposed to be doing long time. Solving societal technological needs.
    They sleeping ...
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  • Isaac (canada) 7 years ago

    World what? ?????.Pls stop that NONSENSE.

  • Kwaku 7 years ago

    This is amazing news if the government is gonna fund it and they rather busy stealing countrie'so money and put them in bloody foreign banks

  • Ama 7 years ago

    THIS HAPPENED UNDER NANA ADDO'S NPP GOVERNMENT. GOD BLESS NANA ADDO

  • PRINCEWILLY@YMAIL.COM 7 years ago

    THEY SHOULD REGISTER THE PATENT FIRST,OTHERWISE IT WILL BE STOLEN AND MASS PRODUCED IN THE WESTERN WORLD.

  • Domain 7 years ago

    @ ATTA, what is a lie about what they are saying. you talk about Xtralis? come on, the fact that they perform same function doesn'n make them one and the same. they are based on differemt mechanism and principles. Have u ever ...
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  • PHEL 7 years ago

    Thank God and Congratulations to the students and the school

  • Geoffrey 7 years ago

    Well done guys, pray that all including sponsors of beauty contests will give u the needed support to make our nation gr8 n strong.

  • Kweku 7 years ago

    What a country Ghana people live in - Accra to Kumasi and for some it is the whole wide world. By the way, what is the significance of the gadget called open-space fire detector? OK, mass produce so that I buy one and put in ...
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  • Mr Bond 7 years ago

    Our president who want to create jobs and industrial Ghana don't care because the technology is made in Ghana technology.Folks Our inventors are rotten because government don't care.We saw how Rawlings chase Siaw from Ghana.W ...
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