Invention

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.

A farmer from Chahnehra village in Banda, Uttar Pradesh, invented a low cost, simple ploughing machine from an old cycle. It costs only Rs 3000 and requires no fuel, unlike regular ploughs that start at Rs 20,000, requiring fuel or bullock.

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.

Here is a ground breaking invention which is capable of saving the lives of thousands of babies in underdeveloped and developing countries.

Plastic consumption has been growing and has now reached an alarming scale. There is one man who is sending plastic back to where it came from.