Braille Phone: Smartphone for the blind

It was during interaction with the non users of technology in a village that made Sumit Dagar, an interaction-designer and a post-graduate from National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, think and realize how isolated they were from technology. The challenge for him was how to design technology that was simple and accessible by them and in the process came up with the idea of Braille phone, a user-friendly smartphone for the blind.

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CastAR: Projector wearable glasses enables augmented/ virtual reality gaming

Technical Systems Inc. has introduced CastAR, a wearable projected augmented reality system that offers an exciting experience of 3D/ holographic gaming on a screen that can be mounted anywhere.

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Soon, you maybe using a smart card to access safe drinking water!

Few companies are able to take an very unconventional approach to solve problems and in the process disrupts the market and establishes new markets. Adopting a radical design of business model, Sarvajal has designed solution for drinking water problem at the crossroads converging business innovation and technology.

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Smart Grids: efficient power for a greener tomorrow

Solar panels on rooftops of our houses are becoming increasingly common. Suppose the panels have surplus energy on a day to meet your household needs and excess energy is most likely to get wasted. Imagine a electricity grid in which you can feed in the excess energy from the solar panel to the grid and get paid for it from the utility companies. Or you run an industry and require to know energy consumption pattern in real time of your unit so that you are able to optimize it to save costs. Such a scenario is bound to become a reality in coming years as smart grids are adopted across the world.

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