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By Shruti Veenam on January 30, 2010
a continuation of How your favourite gadget is changing the world: Part 1 of 2
Closer home
In India too, the mobile technology is being explored in various social fields. Though the penetration of mobile phones is not very high across India, the mobile still reaches interior rural villages and tribal areas in some states. There are [...]
Posted in Article | Tagged BabaJob, ClickDiagnostics, IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Ltd, India, Innovation, LabourNet, Mobile Phone, Not-for-profit, Question Box, Science & Technology, SEWA Rural |
By Shruti Veenam on January 26, 2010
If you are a regular urbanite like me, to you the mobile phone means just what Priyanka Chopra seems to convey with her idiosyncratic little nod in the Nokia commercial – ‘it’s not just a phone, it’s me’. The ubiquitous device has now been a part of your lifestyle for years. You need it to [...]
Posted in Article | Tagged Africa, Cell-Life, Community Policing, Disaster Management, Healthcare, Innovation, ISIS, Kenya, Mobile Phone, Not-for-profit, PeaceNet, Science & Technology, SexInfo, South Africa |
By Nihit on August 26, 2009
Ralph Weissleder, from Harvard Medical College, has developed magnetic nano particles that can identify tuberculosis-causing bacteria in sputum. This has made it possible to diagnose tuberculosis in half an hour.
The traditional method for diagnosis takes about two weeks, as the bacteria is first spotted in sputum under the microscope, and then the suspect samples are [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Harvard Medical College, Healthcare, Innovation, Science & Technology, Tuberculosis, USA |
By Nihit on August 10, 2009
The concept of the village, or ‘gram’ forms the core of India. Over seventy percent of her population is rural. There are more than half a million villages across the country, as opposed to five thousand or so urban settlements. And still many of us, such as me, have no direct experience of life in [...]
Posted in Article | Tagged Alternate Energy, Environment, Husk Power Systems, India, Innovation, Rice Husk, Science & Technology, Startup |
By Nihit on April 8, 2009
Touch-screen technology will now be available to the visually challenged thanks to an invention by Jussi Rantala of the University of Tampere in Finland and her colleagues. They have created have created a vibrating touch screen phone that can simulate Braille.
This was done by using a cellphone which has a piezoelectric material built into the [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Blind, Finland, Phone, Science & Technology, Touch-screen |
By Nihit on April 4, 2009
The Boxing Day Tsunami, which killed over two hundred thousand people, prompted a research team, led by Newcastle University Mathematics professor Robin Johnson, to devise a formula that can forecast the occurrence and the magnitude of a tsunami.
“What we found was that the number and height of the tsunami waves hitting the shoreline depends critically on the [...]
Posted in News | Tagged Britain, Disaster Management, Science & Technology |
By devadutta on September 28, 2008
As Sir. M. Visvesvarayya stared at the mighty Shivanasamudra falls awestruck and overwhelmed, people were convinced that the beauty of the falls had mesmerized him. “What a waste of energy!”, were his next few words. It took a while for others to understand, but he already knew what he was going to do. He [...]
Posted in Article | Tagged Alternate Energy, Energee-Saw, Renewable Energy, Science & Technology, Uganda |