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A vuvulaire or a vuvu solaire? Rethinking the vuvuzela
Oct 1, 2010, 15:08 GMT
Johannesburg - A cellphone amplifier? A cricket wicket? Maybe even a lampshade?
Two months after the end of the football World Cup the race is on in South Africa to find new uses for the much-taunted and tooted vuvuzela.
'The vuvuzela has become an extraordinary symbol of unity in South Africa,' according to Wozela website, which is sponsoring a competition on ways to recycle the plastic trumpet blown by football fans.
'Wozela wants to make this object of unity an object of utility by generating ways to reuse it.'
The best design uploaded onto the website in the form of a diagram, photo or video, wins 10,000 rand (1.428 dollars).
Already, some frontrunners have emerged.
The alezuvuv - a vuvuzela turned back-to-front so that it muffles a person's cries or utterances instead of amplifying them - had received the thumbs-up from 134 visitors to the site by October 1.
A sketch showing how three vuvuzelas could be used to make cricket wicket had won the approval of another 61.
Other hits were a 'vuvulaire' lamp shade and a solar cooker made out of a vuvuzela lined with foil and planted in the ground at an angle so that the contents cook in the sun.
The competition closes on October 15. Wozela, which is powered by a marketing consultancy and an advertising company, says the winning designs will be given to local artists and craftsmen to put into production.
To see the entries, go to http://wozela.wordpress.com/
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