Africa has in recent years witnessed the emergence of young talents who have gained global recognition with their innovations. One of such talents is Danny Manu who is setting trends in the world of communication.
The Ghanaian-British digital entrepreneur has gone global with the introduction of what is described as the world’s first completely wireless headphones with live voice translations in 40 different languages.
After successfully delivering on his first true wireless translation earbuds, Mymanu CLIK, the 33-year-old keeps setting new standards in the world of mobile communication, now with the introduction of the Titan earbuds.
The earbuds, equipped with an eSIM, make it possible to make and receive 4G calls and text messages independently of the smartphone, even if it is hundreds of miles away.
This innovation has come in handy particularly for the visually impaired community as they could easily get in touch with their loved ones just by the power of the voice without using their mobile phone.
Africa presents a pool of economic opportunities in virtually every sector, and the continent’s youthful population structure is an enormous opportunity in this digital era, hence the need for Africa to make digitally-enabled socio-economic development a high priority.
While several governments in Africa brawl to achieve this, the Global Business School Network argues that the continent does not yet have the tech talents to enable this transformation. However, Danny Manu has proven them wrong.
The Man Danny Manu
Danny Manu is a graduate of Oxford University, he started working at Quanta Networks, a data and cloud computing Solutions Company. True to his description of himself in his website, “a very ambitious, hard-working engineer who strives to develop life-changing solutions to improve people’s life” before Clicks, Manu has been involved in other self-projects to better the lives of people in his community.
During the heat of the pandemic, he created MedyBird, an integrated innovative manufacturer of both medical and industrial PPE hand protection and other equipment. Within a few weeks of establishment, MedyBird filled a major void. Over time, it has supplied more than 500 million PPE to countries struck by the pandemic.
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MyManu is the parent company that produced the wonder wireless earbuds. It was established in 2014. Danny Manu had to hustle for funding of his projects from scratch. The world-changing innovation, Clik S was self-funded by one black man from Africa. According to Danny, he had difficulty accessing government funding so he had to scrape together funds from his other businesses and also crowdfunding online, where he got more than 5 million pounds from websites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo.
Danny was working as an Aerospace Engineer when he first had the idea of MyManu company one day as he watched his daughter’s phone fall into the bathtub, according to Keepingthefaith, there he decided to bring out innovations that will ease people’s life.
The first product at MyManu was a water-proof Bluetooth device, and true to his inspiration he named it after his daughter Gabby. The innovation company went on to produce more high tech sound devices including headphones. Manu had his first breakthrough in 2017 with the invention of AI language translation earbuds, the Clik S.
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The Clik S is a live translation earbud that translates languages without the use of the internet in real-time. It is one of the most solution-oriented products in the world of tech in recent times. It works with your smartphone to learn the language being spoken to provide an instant translation. These life-changing earbuds are said to have the ability to translate more than 40 languages. Imagine having a meeting with your Chinese or French business partners without needing a middle man or a human translator. This is the world, Danny Manu has made possible with his innovation.
Clik S is made possible by the MyJuno operating system, a social and messaging application that power the earbuds. With all these notable inventions, one can only imagine what the future holds for this genius of technology and what other innovations he has for humanity.
