Innovation

Non-potable water is filled in the tubes after filtering with four-layered cotton cloth. The water gets heated in the stagnation mode by solar energy, making it potable.

With all these advantages, the transcritical system is still not perfected yet. But we might be closer, with India’s first transcritical refrigeration.

In a country where, even today, a majority of parents want their children to either be engineers or doctors, the scope of being a scientist is rather bleak. Space Kidz provides students with a platform where they can explore science freely, without the pressures of academics.

The Better India talked to Dr Shanthanu Chakravarthy, a doctoral scholar at IISc, who pursued the design, prototyping, control, haptics, and simulation of an endoscopy simulator.

Scientists from the University of British Columbia (UBC), which includes one of Indian origin, have now developed a cheaper and sustainable method to build solar cells using bacteria.

Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies cannot be paid for using the systems and portals of Indian banks, according to RBI rules.

Yogesh Sahu and Rajnish Bajpai decided to revolutionalise the village in UP by empowering the residents with mobile technology and Internet of Things (IoT).

"... the Crew Escape System along with crew module soared skyward, then arced out over the Bay of Bengal and floated back to Earth under its parachutes about 2.9 km from Sriharikota.”

Cutting down on daily drudgery, IoT-based 'Pluto' lets farmers control their water pumps from anywhere and at anytime!

The project was selected in the first phase of a Smart India Hackathon--Hardware edition--where more than 600 teams participated. The students also won a cash prize of Rs 50,000.