Innovation

A device that converts pollutants to ink, a driverless bicycle for the disabled, a solar lamp the size of your palm: the IItians of India have come up with many inventions that make our lives simpler.

The automated dosa making machine, invented by Vikas Eshwar and Sudeep Sabat, makes crispy dosas of the perfect size and thickness. It impressed the royal couple enough to break protocol and have a bite.

IIT-Bombay final year students Anurag Meena and Satyendra Meena developed a machine that dispenses clean drinking water if you put in a plastic bottle or aluminium can.

In Dharavi, young girls have turned into coders. They tackle everyday issues such as harassment, waste management and waiting in lines for water, through apps.

With India being the heart-disease capital of the world, this innovative, credit-card-sized ECG monitor has the potential to touch millions of hearts!

All you have to do is set a temperature, and go to sleep. The smart fan regulator, developed by five engineering students from Kochi, will then detect the change in temperature and maintain its speed or switch off accordingly.

22-year-old Royston Vijay Castellino won the Gandhian Young Technological Innovation Award for his innovative project in which he harnesses the power of wind and generates electricity by using kites.

For people with disabilities, for those who face trouble while steering or pedalling bicycles, for the benefit of bicycle sharing stations, for solving innumerable environment issues – this driverless bicycle developed by some students of IIT Kharagpur may well be the answer. Read how.

Three young boys from Coimbatore have just won an international grant for their project, No Food Waste, which focuses on collecting excess food from events and parties and then distributing among the needy. Here's more.