Five Indians have made it to the list of America’s top 35 young innovators. They are Ranjan Dash, Ashoke Ravi, Vik Singh, Pranav Mistry and Shwetak Patel.
Mistry, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), developed a digital device called Sixth Sense. It allows one to do away with keyboard, mouse and a screen to connect and communicate with the digital world.
The gizmo lets you wave your fingers in the air to draw a figure on any surface just as you use a computer mouse and a screen. Or you can simply gesture fingers like a photo frame, snap a picture and project it anywhere you like.
Dash, 32, is co- founder of a startup — Y- Carbon — that has commercialised a technique which enables nanoporous carbon power hybrid cars.
As the chief technology officer he led Y- carbon to develop a prototype ultracapacitor. He plans to partner with other companies to develop this and other applications for the porous material manufactured by Y- Carbon.
Ravi, 32, is a researcher at Intel. He has been working on how future cellphones and netbooks won’t need separate circuits to transmit multiple radio signals (over a cellular network, Wi- Fi, and WiMax, for example).
Singh, a programmer with ‘ Yahoo at 24’, developed the BOSS (build you own search service) model which enabled developers take Yahoo search results and manipulate them to provide services tailored to users’ needs.
Patel, 27, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, has shown that each electrical appliance in a house produces a signature in the building’s wiring; plugged into any outlet, a single sensor that picks up electrical variations in the power lines can detect the signal made by every device as it’s turned on or off.
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Mistry, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), developed a digital device called Sixth Sense. It allows one to do away with keyboard, mouse and a screen to connect and communicate with the digital world.
The gizmo lets you wave your fingers in the air to draw a figure on any surface just as you use a computer mouse and a screen. Or you can simply gesture fingers like a photo frame, snap a picture and project it anywhere you like.
Dash, 32, is co- founder of a startup — Y- Carbon — that has commercialised a technique which enables nanoporous carbon power hybrid cars.
As the chief technology officer he led Y- carbon to develop a prototype ultracapacitor. He plans to partner with other companies to develop this and other applications for the porous material manufactured by Y- Carbon.
Ravi, 32, is a researcher at Intel. He has been working on how future cellphones and netbooks won’t need separate circuits to transmit multiple radio signals (over a cellular network, Wi- Fi, and WiMax, for example).
Singh, a programmer with ‘ Yahoo at 24’, developed the BOSS (build you own search service) model which enabled developers take Yahoo search results and manipulate them to provide services tailored to users’ needs.
Patel, 27, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington, has shown that each electrical appliance in a house produces a signature in the building’s wiring; plugged into any outlet, a single sensor that picks up electrical variations in the power lines can detect the signal made by every device as it’s turned on or off.
Courtesy : Mail Today
