Traditionally, the weaving of carpets and rugs in India has been a cottage industry -- weavers picked up raw materials from vendors of carpets, weaved at home, and returned the finished product to the vendors. From looms to technology to automation, nothing much had changed in the way carpets were...
A Paper Microscope for India?
Dr Manu Prakash, of bioengineering faculty at Stanford Univeristy, received a $100,000 grant from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to promote the exploration of bold and innovative ways to improve global health. Prakash is a 2002 computer science graduate of the Indian Institutes of Technology. Prakash and his team in...
India and US scientists apply carbon nanofiber patch to resusticate "dead" heart muscle
Scientists at Brown University in collaboration with Dr. Bikramjit Basu at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (my alma mater), built a scaffold-looking structure consisting of carbon nanofibers and a government-approved polymer to determine if cardiac muscle lost in a heart attack could be regenerated. Tests showed the synthetic nanopatch...
Innovative Device from India – Adam Tablet PC
A tablet device named Adam, designed by Notion Ink a startup, located in Hyderabad India, is capturing a tremendous amount of buzz in the lead up to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas next week. Based on Google's Android operating system. Nvidia's new Tegra chipset and the Pixel...