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When you think outside the box, you can come up with the craziest ideas. Israeli inventor and designer Izhar Gafni had such an idea. He created a bicycle made almost entirely from cardboard.

“To make the bike was extremely difficult,' Gafni said. “It took a year and a half, with lots of testing and failures.” But in the end he got it right. First, Gafni drew the shape onto cardboard and then he cut it out. After that, he added a secret mixture of organic materials to the cardboard. This made the bike waterproof and fireproof. Next, he attached rubber wheels to the bike. Finally, he put all the pieces together and painted it.

Gafni is very positive about his invention. “When we started a year and a half ago, people laughed at us, but now we are getting at least a dozen emails every day asking where they can buy such a bicycle, so this really makes me hopeful that we will succeed,” he says. According to Gafni's business partner, mass production of the bike will begin in the next few months.

Gafni's cardboard bike has many advantages over a regular bike. Firstly, it is very light, weighing only about nine kilos. Secondly, it is inexpensive to produce. The materials, mostly cardboard, with some other parts from old cars, cost very little.

Gafni says his bikes will also have a number of social benefits. Because they are affordable, they will provide an important means of transportation for people living in poor countries. In addition, his bikes can help reduce traffic in big cities and cut down on pollution.

Only time will tell how popular Gafni's new bike will be, but there is no doubt that it is original.

When you think outside the box, you can come up with the craziest ideas. Israeli inventor and designer Izhar Gafni had such an idea. He created a bicycle made almost entirely from cardboard.

“To make the bike was extremely difficult,' Gafni said. “It took a year and a half, with lots of testing and failures.” But in the end he got it right. First, Gafni drew the shape onto cardboard and then he cut it out. After that, he added a secret mixture of organic materials to the cardboard. This made the bike waterproof and fireproof. Next, he attached rubber wheels to the bike. Finally, he put all the pieces together and painted it.

Gafni is very positive about his invention. “When we started a year and a half ago, people laughed at us, but now we are getting at least a dozen emails every day asking where they can buy such a bicycle, so this really makes me hopeful that we will succeed,” he says. According to Gafni's business partner, mass production of the bike will begin in the next few months.

Gafni's cardboard bike has many advantages over a regular bike. Firstly, it is very light, weighing only about nine kilos. Secondly, it is inexpensive to produce. The materials, mostly cardboard, with some other parts from old cars, cost very little.

Gafni says his bikes will also have a number of social benefits. Because they are affordable, they will provide an important means of transportation for people living in poor countries. In addition, his bikes can help reduce traffic in big cities and cut down on pollution.

Only time will tell how popular Gafni's new bike will be, but there is no doubt that it is original.

When you think outside the box, you can come up with the craziest ideas. Israeli inventor and designer Izhar Gafni had such an idea. He created a bicycle made almost entirely from cardboard.

“To make the bike was extremely difficult,' Gafni said. “It took a year and a half, with lots of testing and failures.” But in the end he got it right. First, Gafni drew the shape onto cardboard and then he cut it out. After that, he added a secret mixture of organic materials to the cardboard. This made the bike waterproof and fireproof. Next, he attached rubber wheels to the bike. Finally, he put all the pieces together and painted it.

Gafni is very positive about his invention. “When we started a year and a half ago, people laughed at us, but now we are getting at least a dozen emails every day asking where they can buy such a bicycle, so this really makes me hopeful that we will succeed,” he says. According to Gafni's business partner, mass production of the bike will begin in the next few months.

Gafni's cardboard bike has many advantages over a regular bike. Firstly, it is very light, weighing only about nine kilos. Secondly, it is inexpensive to produce. The materials, mostly cardboard, with some other parts from old cars, cost very little.

Gafni says his bikes will also have a number of social benefits. Because they are affordable, they will provide an important means of transportation for people living in poor countries. In addition, his bikes can help reduce traffic in big cities and cut down on pollution.

Only time will tell how popular Gafni's new bike will be, but there is no doubt that it is original.

When you think outside the box, you can come up with the craziest ideas. Israeli inventor and designer Izhar Gafni had such an idea. He created a bicycle made almost entirely from cardboard.

“To make the bike was extremely difficult,' Gafni said. “It took a year and a half, with lots of testing and failures.” But in the end he got it right. First, Gafni drew the shape onto cardboard and then he cut it out. After that, he added a secret mixture of organic materials to the cardboard. This made the bike waterproof and fireproof. Next, he attached rubber wheels to the bike. Finally, he put all the pieces together and painted it.

Gafni is very positive about his invention. “When we started a year and a half ago, people laughed at us, but now we are getting at least a dozen emails every day asking where they can buy such a bicycle, so this really makes me hopeful that we will succeed,” he says. According to Gafni's business partner, mass production of the bike will begin in the next few months.

Gafni's cardboard bike has many advantages over a regular bike. Firstly, it is very light, weighing only about nine kilos. Secondly, it is inexpensive to produce. The materials, mostly cardboard, with some other parts from old cars, cost very little.

Gafni says his bikes will also have a number of social benefits. Because they are affordable, they will provide an important means of transportation for people living in poor countries. In addition, his bikes can help reduce traffic in big cities and cut down on pollution.

Only time will tell how popular Gafni's new bike will be, but there is no doubt that it is original.

When you think outside the box, you can come up with the craziest ideas. Israeli inventor and designer Izhar Gafni had such an idea. He created a bicycle made almost entirely from cardboard.

“To make the bike was extremely difficult,' Gafni said. “It took a year and a half, with lots of testing and failures.” But in the end he got it right. First, Gafni drew the shape onto cardboard and then he cut it out. After that, he added a secret mixture of organic materials to the cardboard. This made the bike waterproof and fireproof. Next, he attached rubber wheels to the bike. Finally, he put all the pieces together and painted it.

Gafni is very positive about his invention. “When we started a year and a half ago, people laughed at us, but now we are getting at least a dozen emails every day asking where they can buy such a bicycle, so this really makes me hopeful that we will succeed,” he says. According to Gafni's business partner, mass production of the bike will begin in the next few months.

Gafni's cardboard bike has many advantages over a regular bike. Firstly, it is very light, weighing only about nine kilos. Secondly, it is inexpensive to produce. The materials, mostly cardboard, with some other parts from old cars, cost very little.

Gafni says his bikes will also have a number of social benefits. Because they are affordable, they will provide an important means of transportation for people living in poor countries. In addition, his bikes can help reduce traffic in big cities and cut down on pollution.

Only time will tell how popular Gafni's new bike will be, but there is no doubt that it is original.

Just a few hundred years ago, life was far more different from it is today. When people wanted to travel or communicate, they had to go on foot or horseback. A journey of just a few miles by this method could be a long, arduous process. Whatever people owned – from clothing to tools – had to be made by hand. Illness was a constant threat; diseases rapidly spread through unsanitary conditions and were difficult to treat with the medicines available.

Life has been transformed over the years through the efforts of the people who had the creativity to come up with new and better ways of doing things. Alexander Graham Bell's fascination with the idea of sending sound down a wire from the speaker to the listener gave birth to the telephone, which finally led to the cell phone, fax machine, modem, and a communication system that now links the entire globe.

These inventions, like many others, have clearly improved life by keeping people healthier, helping them to communicate and work more efficiently, and allowing them to travel farther. X-rays allowed doctors to look inside the human body to treat diseases and injuries. The electric light illuminated the darkness so people could work at night. Braille made it possible for blind people to read.

Even the most world-changing inventions, however, were not always recognized as such when they were introduced to the public. When Rutherford B. Hayes saw a demonstration of Alexander Graham Bell's telephone in 1876, the president's response was less than enthusiastic. “That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?” he scoffed.

Sometimes it was the inventor's own necessity that gave birth to inventions. The old saying, “Necessity is the mother of invention,” couldn't be more true.