Innovation

A team of four students from the premier Indian Institute of Technology, (IIT) Kharagpur, has highlighted the potential of rice husk to produce furniture and pen bodies.

The portable ventilator is both affordable and portable. It costs around Rs 35,000 and is controlled with an Android app.

Founded by Dr V Vinay, Saurabh Chandra, and Saad Nasser – a 15-year-old who dropped out of the formal education system in Grade 5, in 2017, this start-up is pushing the envelope on innovation. It also aims to take Indian products on par with global standards!

For a while now, farmers in the Ranmala village of Pune district have been carefully observing the trend of leopards venturing into their villages. While they were troubled with the attacks on their cattle, pets and even fellow villagers, they understood that these predators would not enter human territory unless they were desperate.

Lightweight, ultra-thin and flexible, this stealth material can even be customised for different climates! #Innovation #IIT #DRDO

"The Flint crisis hit me hard, and I wondered how I could help the residents. I have always been inclined towards science and experimentation, so I took up the challenge. When I expressed my concern and wish to experiment on an easy, low-cost way to detect lead in water, my school teachers too started helping me out."

"When fitted to railway tracks, the sensors would track visuals, movement, sound, lights and other parameters before corroborating the inputs and feeding them into an automated algorithm."

In their initial proof-of-concept testing, the researchers have managed to lower the temperature inside their device by six degrees Celsius, when compared to the temperature outside.

The 10th edition of India's Largest Ideas Platform, TEDxGateway will be held on 2nd December, 2018 -- an event where a group of interesting and impactful speakers and attendees from vastly different fields will get together to draw inspiration from the most unlikely places.

An IIT-B engineer dedicated to raising awareness on clean transportation, Sushil Reddy built a solar-powered e-cycle that earned him a Guiness World Record.