Everybody has heard about Prof Anil Gupta’s National Innovation Foundation, which encourages innovations that can be used to make lives easier for rural folks. NIF also conducts a nationwide contest, IGNITE, for school children in partnership with CBSE. The results for this year are out. There are many innovative ideas, which take the grind out of some mundane tasks. There are also some which didn’t make it to the winning post but are proof of the fact that innovation is alive and kicking in the country.
Like the idea from 15-year-old Sarojini Mahajan to use the human pulse to charge a cell phone! After all, whether it be the urban or rural landscape, the cell phone is ubiquitous.
The idea was picked up by Stanford University, which plans to work on the idea. They have already given $1000 to NIF to develop a prototype in collaboration with them.
It was when her teacher asked her for crazy ideas that Sarojini started thinking about watches that run on human pulse and wondered if the idea could be extended! With her teacher she conceived a charging system in which sensors would be placed on the cell phone. Holding it in hand in a particular way would charge it using the heat of the palm.
Interestingly, Sarojini who is a class topper and loves science has no desire to become a doctor or engineer!
Ideas can come from anywhere and anyone, young or old, educated or ‘uneducated’. One only needs to think ‘out of the box’. Right?
We have our own BIG award at Enzen too for innovative ideas in the field of energy and environment. All you need to do is demonstrate proof of concept. Any idea, which brings to the fore unlimited, clean energy. Write in to us.
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