In­nis Fran­cis

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He is best known as the leader of the pop­u­lar cul­tur­al group KaisoKah Moko Jumbies but these days with en­ter­tain­ment at a stand­still Ju­nior Bis­nath is putting his cre­ativ­i­ty to a dif­fer­ent use.

He has cre­at­ed the Dr Ro­bot­ic Screen Stand, wood­en sup­ports avail­able in two sizes for cell phones and oth­er elec­tron­ic de­vices.

Bis­nath, a re­tired join­er, came up with the idea af­ter his wife Vic­to­ria, com­plained about how dif­fi­cult it was to be con­tin­u­al­ly hold­ing her de­vice to view videos and oth­er on­line con­tent. She said she had to keep chang­ing po­si­tions and shift­ing hands and the de­vice would be­come hot and un­able to hold.

Bis­nath, 63, went in­to his wood­work shop and even­tu­al­ly came up with the de­sign for his first screen stand which he made from lum­ber, knots and bolts, and wing knots for me­chan­i­cal mo­bil­i­ty.

Victoria Bisnath enjoys her favourite music video using the Dr Robotic Screen Stand her husband built.

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“This is work­ing out per­fect! I was fed up hold­ing the phone in my hands to lis­ten to the news. The screen stand is faith­ful, it was some­thing I re­al­ly want­ed,” an ap­pre­cia­tive Vic­to­ria said.

That project has al­so pro­vid­ed Bis­nath with the op­por­tu­ni­ty to teach the young mem­bers of KaisoKah Moko Jumbies about self-sus­te­nance now that school is on va­ca­tion.

Not­ing that for the past 16-months ed­u­ca­tion has be­come heav­i­ly re­liant on elec­tron­ic de­vices, Bis­nath said his screen stand pro­vides a com­fort­able way to use phones, tablets and com­put­ers for on­line class­es, as well as work­ing from home.

He said he would like to get sup­port from the ed­u­ca­tion min­istry to pro­mote the use of the screen stand among stu­dents.

Sev­er­al of Bis­nath’s young pro­teges have been us­ing the stands and they de­scribe it as well thought out, so that they no longer have to re­sort to makeshift items to prop up their de­vices.

Kyle Cuthbert, left, and his friend Gideon Hope attach a phone charger into a device mounted into the mini Dr Robotic Screen Stand.

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“You can mul­ti­task and not just be sub­ject­ed to us­ing the phone alone at a time. With the stand you can do oth­er things,” Bis­nath said.

“Many times peo­ple try to mul­ti­task and the phone would fall and crack and with this, you can pre­vent that while you video chat and take self­ies easy.”

Junior Bisnath, right, looks on as Gideon Hope and Kyle Cuthbert put together a giant Dr Robotic Screen Stand.

Innis Francis