Made in India : Useful and Innovative Indigenous Healthcare Technology
Made in India: Useful and Innovative Indigenous Healthcare Technology
Seeing is believing and the new Google Contact Lens does more than just improving your vision. Dr. Brian Otis and Babk Parviz are the inventors of this wondrous contact lens that has two rings containing chemical sensors to measure the level of sugar in tears. A spectral readout is used to find out sugar levels in your body. But with Google set to revolutionize health-care, enterprising Indians will not be left behind. Media reports in prominent dailies have discussed just how amazing and useful many of these inventions by Indians are.
Over 30 amazing innovations and inventions resulted from workshops held at an Innovation Centre called Surjana at the L. V. Prasad Eye Institute Hyderabad in partnership with engineering colleges in India as well as IT company CYIENT and Media labs at MIT from the US. Here is a round-up of some of the inventions and inventors.
Sanjay Gadadhalay is a design engineer who has demonstrated how to use a 2X4 device that is taped on the backside of the smartphone. The device is grasped at 2 ends and 30 seconds later you ECG graph is ready. This invention ensures that the ECG graph can be stored or printed out. It can also be downloaded and emailed for the doctor to examine the health of your heart. This hand-held phone type ECG has been brought out by an Indian company called Khosla Enterpise which seeks to replace cumbersome technology being used in hospitals and healthcare centres for examining the health of the heart.
An innovative product which has also been covered by media reports is an educative and useful puzzle for blind children developed by Tania Jain from the National Institute of Design at Ahmedabad. The puzzle is called "Fittle" and it helps blind kids learn Braille as well as how to identify the shape of objects. This is done by placing the jigsaw puzzles together in such a way that the child learns to identify the shape of the object and also learns the Braille word for it using a toy.
Kiran Trivedi who is a lecturer in engineering from Bhavnagar has invented a headband which can be strapped onto the temples for detecting and recording brain signals or EEGs using a B3 band sensor blue-toothed to an Android phone. This enables the number of the person to be detected. By encouraging the improvement in the strength of eye blinks every minute through these signals, the invention has a lot of benefits for those who want to test vision problems using an easy method. The device is known as BlinkDroid and it enables a person to detect abnormal eye conditions or fetal alcohol spectrum disorders as well. A Braille translator has been devised by the students from local engineering colleges in Hyderabad. The youngsters Aparna Hariharan, Laksh Kumar, Rahul Avaghan, Ayushman Talwar, Sai Revanth, Syed Junaid Ahmed, Rahul Avaghan, Amera Ali, and Shakti Priyan have perfected this invention which has a lot of benefits for visually challenged people. The invention can read English texts and translate as well as print this out in Braille.
