This video comes via the Discovery Channel and the Honey Bee Network, an organization which travels throughout impoverished regions seeking and innovative designs to make life better, and connecting the dots between designers, entrepreneurs, and larger markets. From their website: “Honey Bee collects pollen without impoverishing the flowers and it connects flower to flower through pollination.”

Shown here are inventors of a tree climber to facilitate getting fruits down from high trees, a bicycle-powered washing machine, a scooter modified to be used by a little person, and my favorite, the amphibious bicycle, whose inventor created it because his love lived across the water, and he couldn’t wait for the boat. “My desperation made me an innovator,” says Md. Saidullah. “Even love needs help from technology.”

I love this video because it shows that, especially with limited resources, human ingenuity can work wonders. What small innovations can we make to improve our lives and the world at large?