6 innovations by IITians to make India a better place
From electric cars and autos running on hydrogen to smart canes
for the visually-challenged, the innovations inside the campus labs will
surprise you
India is recognised globally for its premier institutes -IITs
and IIMs. Students from these colleges are behind some of the world's unicorns.
They have a history of producing some wonderful innovations for a better world.
Big or small, their ideas have contributed to our society for years. They are
out to revolutionise the world and we are proud of their innovations. Here are
some of them:
An electric race car that participated in Formula Students
competition at Silverstone Circuit, UK
IIT-Bombay students unveiled EVo1 at the Powai campus -India's
first electric race car. A team of 60 students designed this car in 2012. It
has a top speed of 115 km per hour and weighs about 320 kgs. It has
acceleration from one to 100 kmph in five seconds and from 0 to 60 kmph in 3.5
seconds. It possesses high efficiency DC motors and lithium polymer batteries.
An app
which Facebook ended up buying
IITians Abheek Anand and Soham Majumdar once heard a restaurant
owner complain about the websites and apps offering deals. So, they launched Tagtile
in March 2011 to meet the needs of merchants as well as customers with exciting
deals. Tagtile has won acclaim and become one of the widely used apps. It won a
partnership deal with Facebook, and the tech g ia nt ended up buyi ng the
year-old product. The deal brought along an offer for the founders to join
Facebook as product manager and engineer.
SmartCane
for the easy mobility of those visually-challenged
A group of passionate technologists, an IIT professor and a
social entrepreneur joined hands and came up with an innovative product to
alleviate the hardships faced by visually challenged people when it comes to
independent mobility. SmartCane is an aid for the visually impaired that helps
its user diagnose any above-the-knee obstruc tion from a distance of three
metres. Frugality and re sourcefulness have ensured that this product costs
only `3,000.
Drones
which the Indian Army now uses
IIT Bombay students invented N E T R A -a n aut ono mous
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), which helps the Indian Army with rescue
operations dur ing natural calamities.
Water
rides you can now walk on
Mirik Gogri and Ayush Jain, two IIT-Bombay alumni, formed a
company that innovates to make path-breaking products and solutions. The team
came up with a fun idea of walking on water, which they later gamified into a
ride. They are now set to introduce the product at various gaming zones and
amusement parks. The duo also came up with rewritable T-shirts.
Hydrogen
autos with less noise and pollution may take over Delhi roads
Professor LM Das of IIT Delhi conceived the idea of using
compressed hydrogen as an automotive fuel with Delhi's air pollution in mind.
In the
early 80s, it was an idea ahead of its time.
Detractors in the scientific community dismissed his research as
a freak project. But Das soldiered on alone over the next three decades as
associates came and went. Das says the .engine has been optimised to reduce its
emission greatly
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