The two sisters Pavithra and Elakkiya from Tamil Nadu wanted to help their elderly neighbour and created a special handloom, replacing the pedal with a motor and gearbox. “Our innovation will help those who are disabled to be self-employed and independent,” says the elder one, Pavithra Continue reading
This system uses live video coverage and processes it frame by frame, identifying potential areas where crowd surge or visible commotion may be there. Continue reading
Student Team : Ajay Muljibhai Sidpara Supervisor Name: Prof. V. K. Jain, Prof. V. K. Suri, Prof. R. Balasubramanian College Name: Indian institute of technology Kanpur The components having freeform surfaces (surfaces which cannot be defined accurately mathematically) have been widely used in aerospace, automobile, medical, consumer products and the die and mould industries to … Continue reading
Student Team : Devender Goyal, Aditi Srinivasan(Bangalore), Nirali Savla(Mumbai) Supervisor Name: Kshitij Marwah ( MIT- Media Labs) University: IIIT-Hyderabad College Name: IIIT-Hyderabad As we age, our brain starts to slowly lose our capacity for memorising things. When seniors have other debilitating neurological disorders or diseases such as Alzheimer’s or dementia, the function of memory may … Continue reading
Reposted from : Richard Miranda Tuesday, 30 October 2012 – 9:53am at http://www.innovationunit.org/blog/201210/learning-living-interview-professor-anil-gupta-giving-faceless-innovators-voice In partnership with the World Innovation Summit for Education we have written ‘Learning a Living,’ a new book that focuses on radical innovation at the education/work interface. In anticipation of its release in mid-November, we are launching a month-long campaign to celebrate and bring attention … Continue reading
This morning an email portraying a beautiful institution reached us that we would like to share. “I sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a neighboring town of Venice, the city of lights and water. As we enjoyed our coffee, a man entered and sat on an empty table beside us. He … Continue reading
Sparrows are the most common sighted birds in cities but their number is ever dwindling. Scriptures refer to them in very benign terms, Farmers will scare the bird in hot summer sitting on a perch to not let them feed on mature crops but would not kill them. It is easy. But they would let … Continue reading
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