Startups & Innovators
Featuring start-ups and innovators who are reshaping technology, industry, and your future…
Super-Efficient Electric Ceiling Fans with Infrared Remote Controls
In a tropical country like India where energy-hungry common appliances are used continuously round the year, super-efficient ceiling fans can have an enormous effect...
Innovative Chinese Electrical Metering Technology to Save Chinese Meter Manufacturers 155M ¥ Annually
The story above is fictionalized and anecdotic. But if you told it to the CEO of a Chinese electricity meter manufacturer, he or she...
A Detector that Informs About Radiation Levels Around You
One thing that is increasing rapidly in India, apart from the population, of course, is the use of cell phones. Today, almost every person...
Ever wondered how wireless M2M could revolutionise the rural irrigation system?
We all are aware that the rural industry undergoes a number of hardships to provide us the final products in our daily life. Today,...
Solar Conduction Dryer: A Boon to Indian Farmers
Dehydration, a promising but electricity-dependent technology, is commonly used post harvest to increase the shelf life of food produce by almost a year. Across...
Amogh, An Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
Water bodies are still not being exploited to their full potential and assistance from science and technology is required to achieve explorations in greater...
Smart Glasses Just Got Smarter
We have all seen the media frenzy that surrounded Google's Glass, a wearable computer that integrated a lot of Android-functionality, while making you look...
Swasthya Sanjivani: A Portable Digital Testing Laboratory
India is the second-most-populated country in the world. Its rural and urban distribution of population is 68.84 per cent and 31.16 per cent, respectively,...
ROSHNI – Indoor Navigation System For Visually Impaired
Often, it is a challenge for visually impaired people to navigate through an unfamiliar indoor environment and find the desired location or public utility....
Rapid Milk Chiller: A Boon For Rural Areas
Most places in India, especially the villages in the country are suffering from acute power shortages. On top of that, natural calamities only add...
A Better Society, Thanks to Technology
When floods ravaged the state of Uttarakhand, technology buzzed to the rescue. Vodafone India set up help desks from where people could call the...
A Man-Portable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
For the uninitiated, Netra is a man-portable unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which can be used for a variety of applications like surveillance, reconnaissance and...
Innovation Is Also About Improving Everyday Objects
No scratches from this foldable power plug
What do you do when a power plug’s pins scratch your laptop or desk? A lot of us...
BrickPi: Converting Raspberry Pi into a Robot
When prompted what led them to design BrickPi, John Cole, founder, Dexter Industries, shares, “We had a Raspberry Pi sitting on our desks for...
Nothing Can Hold Back Innovators
New anti-gravity 3D printer
Most conventional, additive 3D printing technologies use materials and techniques that are affected by the laws of gravity as well as...
Smart Renewable Energy Microgrid
Microgrid is basically a small-scale power supply network that is designed to provide power for a small community. It can-not be used for high-power...
User-Friendly and Purposeful
How soon can you reach your destination?
You might know all the routes to your office, but are you in a position to know—every morning—which...
FarEye: GPS-Based Vehicle Tracking System for Schools
School buses are an integral part of a kid’s life, but their unpre-dictable pick-up and drop timings are also one of the biggest causes...