innovation

This Social Startup Uses Unsold Food From Airports, And Feed Thousands Of Hungry Children If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one - Mother Teresa According to TOI, Mumbai Cappuccino outlets near airport boarding gates,…

May 20, World Metrology Day this year sees a big change in the way the kilogram unit is defined. The ‘kilogram’ as we know it, defined 130 years from today has finally been retired, along with kelvin, mole and ampere, to maintain a…

Globally, 1800 people die from water-related diseases every day, all over the world; 2000 kids under the age of 5 die every 5 days due to water-related diseases. In 2013, UNICEF described the situation like this: “If 90 school buses…

Science is no doubt an important entity in our day to day life - If not for science, then we would be still living under caves, comprehending this Earth as a flat mass of land. If not for scientists who made vaccines and medicines,…

The Startup India Action Plan was a highly appreciated move by the Government of India to promote startups and entrepreneurs in a country of more than 1.2 billion. India doesn’t lack the brains, all it lacks it proper infrastructure to…

How many startups can you count that solve real world problems instead of just adding value to each other? There are only a handful and one of those that come to our mind is EmbroS. Formerly named Live Braille, EmbroS is the world's…

USA and other foreign nations have employed technologies to make trash cans more functional than they are. Although there is no electricity deficit in these countries, the Governments feel strongly about cleanliness and productivity.…

At the moment, cars that can be driven without any control are not new to us and we have been hearing about a lot of Silicon Valley tech giants working towards developing them. Google, Tesla, Stanford grads, and of course German…

Gartner, a leading global research and advisory firm has revealed top strategic Information technology predictions for 2016 & beyond. The predictions give you a scintillating view of our Digital future where machines are going to…

Did you know that the popular song “Happy Birthday To You..” is copyrighted by Warner Music till 2030? They had bought the copyrights in 1988 for $25 million, and any ‘commercial usage’ of this song is technically illegal unless the…

It is said that necessity is the mother of all inventions. Pranoti Nagarkar-Israni, an Indian housewife in Singapore must have felt the pain of making roti, also called chapati, an Indian flat bread made of flour. This pain is…

Manu Prakash, an assistant professor at Stanford University has built a computer that operates on water. It gains its energy from moving water droplets. The idea stuck Mr. Prakash when he was a graduate student. In his work, he has…

5 Indian students, located at 5 different countries, worked virtually to create a model which can disrupt the aviation industry for ever. They have successfully harvested energy from the natural vibrations of an aircraft wing,…

One day, a group of students from Kalindi College in Delhi were waiting for their next metro train in an underground station. As soon as the train comes in or leave, a heavy gust of wind blows out, which made these students think hard:…

As per rough estimates, a typical first time buyer of real estate in India spends 6-12 months in searching the most suitable property and in the process travels close to 300 kms! Real estate is the most expensive purchase any middle…

The increase in smartphones and the rate of diabetes prevailing in India are quite the numbers you will see racing each other every year. In a recent article on ToI, Dr Arun Bal, diabetic foot surgeon warns,"India is facing an epidemic…

99% of those who are reading this blog will have no difficulty in drinking clean, pure water in the next 5 minutes. All that you need to do is open the tap and get as much water as you want, until you close the tap or filter. But not…

IBM Researchers in India have come up with an exciting solution which can kill two birds with one arrow: UrJar, which is a “A Lighting Solution using Discarded Laptop Batteries.” As per the researchers, 70% of all discarded laptop batteries…

France based world’s 3rd largest tyre manufacturer: Michelin plans to reinvent the wheel this time with it’s flagship product Tweel. The biggest advantage of Tweel is that it can never be flat: its airless, puncture proof hence it cannot…

With a goal of placing a ‘washing machine in every household’ and with a vision of ‘When technology meets common man, World prospers’, a Mumbai based startup is aiming to offer fully functional, portable washing machines for only Rs 1500.…