Amazing innovations

Mansukhbhai Prajapati from Gujarat is the owner of Mitticool, a company that produces more than 250 varieties of clay products including refrigerators, filters and pressure cookers.

Chennai's 'Auto Anna', Anna Durai has gone viral on Twitter after Anand Mahindra hailed his marketing skills that have also impressed big companies like Microsoft, Google, Vodafone and more.

A list of the best innovations by Indians would surely include these 10 low-cost ideas that solve everyday problems in every field, from healthcare to sustainability.

The brains behind the startup Kshemin Labs, Pradeep Varma, Gyan Sai and Rohit K from Vishakapatnam have innovated an AI-powered device that can prevent road accidents by detecting and stopping drivers from falling asleep at the wheel.

Ashutosh Vashishtha, a student of National Institute of Design Haryana has designed a table that generates electricity to aid students of rural areas.

This low-cost life saving device only requires the administrator to power it up in less than 12 seconds by rotating a small hand paddle. While the price of electricity powered defibrillators at airports and hospitals are skyrocketing, this made-in-India defibrillator costs less than a quarter of the same amount.

While it is common for most of us to scrunch our noses up in disgust at the sight and smell of drainage waters flowing through gutters, these school girls have found a way to generate electricity from drainage water and have developed a micro power generator to facilitate the same.

Promoting and making such innovative projects accessible to the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) population, NASSCOM Social Innovation Forum (NSIF), a ‘Tech for Good’ platform, is bridging the gap and fostering inclusive growth.

Conceived by Dhruv Suri, an aeronautical engineering student, GreenBoard incorporates an air purifier, also known as carbon dioxide scrubber, into an ordinary billboard and purifies the air as it flows through it.