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Sumit Dagar, a postgraduate degree from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, is collaborating with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi to come out with a unique device.
Now, soon blind people can read SMS and emails on their smartphones. No matter what language you send the email or SMS to the person, the message will be converted into blind-friendly braille. Sumit’s company is being incubated at the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) based on the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A ) campus.
The company is using a very innovative Shape Memory Alloy technology, which is based on the concept that metals remember their original shapes i.e expand and contract to its original shape after use. This screen will be capable of elevating and depressing the contents to form patterns in braille The phone’s ‘screen’ has a grid of pins, which will move up and down as per requirement. The grid has a braille display, where pins come up to represent a character or letter.
Blind people in India do not have a lot of clout – financially or business-wise. So it is good that organizations like IITs and IIMs are bridging the gap that commerce wouldn’t be able to.
The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
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