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The first few weeks of life are critical for premature and low birth weight babies, as their ability to regulate their own body temperature is not fully developed. Placing the…
It took 10 years and an unlikely alliance between an innovator, NGO and the IIT network to make a useful device affordable for its target consumers. Sathguru commutes by the…
Students and fellows at IIT-Delhi have developed a ‘smart’ cane that will help the blind navigate their way in spite of all obstacles that hamper their movement. It only costs…
E-commerce marketplace Snapdeal today said it has partnered IIT Delhi and Phoenix Medical Solutions to sell ‘SmartCane’ online, priced at Rs 3,500. SmartCane is an advanced version of the white…
From light-weight prosthetics to a standing wheelchair, the IIT-Madras lab develops affordable assistive devices for the disabled. Walking into Sujatha Srinivasan’s lab in IIT-Madras is like entering a sci-fi movie…
As an undergraduate studying computer science and engineering in New Delhi, Rohan Paul, the son of two doctors, took on a class project working with the blind. He learned that…
Let’s say you have developed a great prototype, but the prototype needs to get to market. It needs to get to commercialization. Commercialization is key to impact, but we have…
India’s healthcare infrastructure is dismal, and the poor spend more than half of their income to meet medical needs. Fortunately, as these three stories show, entrepreneurship is joining hands with…
When Rohan Paul started working on an electronic navigation device for the visually-challenged during his under-graduation at IIT Delhi in 2005, he had no idea where the innovation would lead…
Brilliance Pro, a phototherapy device to treat infants with jaundice, was launched by Phoenix Medical systems recently. The device has features such as Smarttilt to provide consistent intensity across the…
No baby should die or be disabled because a light bulb can’t be replaced. Yet during visits to hospitals in India and other countries, Krista Donaldson often saw lifesaving phototherapy…
In India, about 15 babies die every minute due to asphyxiation in maternity homes that can’t afford the costly imported infant warmers. Many midwives try and make do with table…
