Startups & Innovators
Featuring start-ups and innovators who are reshaping technology, industry, and your future…
IR Remote Controls: Ray of Hope for Cerebral Palsy Patients
Cerebral palsy is a disorder affecting one’s ability to move and maintain posture. Recent estimates reveal that India has more than four million cases...
Nano Ganesh Explained: How Mobile Phones Are Used to Control Water Pumps in Rural India
Reaching your doctor, booking movie tickets or paying credit card bills, everything is just a simple matter with your mobile phone. A new feather...
Aerial Eye to Guard Against Terrorism
JULY 2010: The thought of terrorist attacks in Mumbai on Nov. 26, 2008 still sends chills down our spines. Be it the attack on...
TveeBoX Allows Computing And Communications On TV
AUGUST 2010: Matrimony between the television and the Internet—that is what TveeBoX, an over-the-top set-top box (OTT STB) developed by Bengaluru-based NextBiT Computing, has...
iKure Health Monitoring Kiosks
Healthcare and technology go hand in hand, but the benefits of technology-enhanced healthcare services have not yet percolated to the rural and remote areas...
Arpit’s Wheel: Open Source Computer Interface for Children with Cerebral Palsy
Arpit is a child suffering from cerebral palsy—a condition that restricts him from physical (motor) activities that are quite normal to human beings. He...
TouchMagix Brings Alive Any Surface!
OCTOBER 2010: A car game is projected on a wall remote-controlled by human movement. The car runs faster and smoother on collecting ‘Castrol’ fuel...
Video Surveillance System That Never Sleeps
“One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.”
—Publilius Syrus (Roman author, 1st century B.C.)
With statistics related...
Buddy Player For Visually Challenged
MAY 2011: At a conference, the CEO of a product design company noticed nothing peculiar—attendees discussed issues and took notes on their laptops. It...
HHV Develops PECVD System For Thin Film Deposition
JUNE 2012: Bengaluru-based Hind High Vacuum Co. Pvt Ltd (HHV) has recently developed a cluster-type, multi-chamber plasma–enhanced chemical vapour deposition (PECVD) system for the...
Phoenix expEYES Low-cost Platform For PC-interfaced Science Experiments
Schools and colleges often focus on theory, forgetting that practical experiments teach students much more. Members of Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), an autonomous...
A ‘Smart’ Plug That Monitors Power Consumption And Generates Alerts, Wirelessly!
JULY 2011: Often we do not realise that homes and industries consume much more energy than required due to inefficient electronics, faulty devices and...
Active Power Conditioners For Harmonics
AUGUST 2011: Business organisations are constantly looking for efficient energy solutions, especially with the government regulations getting stricter, and rising costs involved with power...
A Low-Cost Large-Size Document Scanner
Design engineer Mandar Thite had many old newspapers stocked in his house as his father loved collecting newspaper clippings. Some of these were even...
ROBOT For Risky Indoor Navigation
The 2008 terror attack on Mumbai’s Taj was fresh in everybody’s mind when budding engineers at M.V.J. College of Engineering were brainstorming over what...
LED Streetlights With Unique Thermal Management
Thermal management in LED streetlights is a constant challenge throughout their existence. To overcome this, Greenstar Engineering (an engineering arm of Greenstar Products Inc.,...
Handheld fieldman for pest surveillance
NOVEMBER 2011: In India over 10,000 species of pests destroy food which could feed 135 million people. The current annual loss due to insects,...
Robot That Breathes Life Into AC Ducts
“To regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”
—Albert Einstein
For commercial set-ups such as shopping malls...