- EMERGENCY LIGHT FOR TWO WHEELERS
Pranav and Gayatri have come up with the idea of installing a system with an emergency light or siren on the two-wheeler. It would get activated upon accident and alert approaching vehicles about the same. The system can be connected to impact sensors which will activate the hazard lights even if the engine shuts down, thus preventing the accident.
- TIFFIN BOX THAT REMINDS ONE TO ME WASH HANDS
Many times children forget to wash their hands before and after eating food. It obviously affects the personal hygiene and causes possible health hazard. Sheereen developed her idea during a Children Creativity Workshop organised by SRISTI at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, during the Festival of Innovation 2016. Her idea is to get it written on the cover of tiffin box, “wash your hands before you eat food” and on the inside cover, “wash your hands after eating your food”. May be, this is made mandatory to print this line by lunch box manufacturers.
- REAL TIME DATA TRANSMISSION FOR VOTING MACHINES
Roshan overheard his teachers discussing how voting numbers in many areas are rigged. He thought of a button in the EVMs which can transmit the total number of votes directly to the cloud server as the voting proceeds and also to district Election Commission office if required at regular interval. A software can be developed for this which will prevent any untoward happening during/after voting. The rate of voting will be recorded per minute any undue activity will alert the monitoring agencies.
- OMNI DIRECTIONAL AIR COOLER
“One hot summer day, all members of my family were sitting in the room but not everyone was able to get cool air of the cooler. This made me think of an alternative,” shares Muskan. Her idea is to make an alternative cooler with throws cool air in all directions horizontally
- SEPTIC TANK LEVEL AND PRESSURE INDICATOR
“Nowadays, people in rural areas are getting aware about cleanliness. They are constructing lavatories but overflowing of the septic tank often results in the pollution of nearby areas,” says Indu. Her idea of a septic tank pressure record aims to warn of the impending problem well in time so that the tank can be drained before it is too late.
- CYCLE OPERATED WATER PUMP
Since childhood, Vikram Rathore has been repairing punctures and dreaming about different products and he put this technical bent of mind to good use to overcome this obstacle. He observed the mechanism of lifting water using an electrical motor in which one engine rotates the fan which enables lifting of water. This gave him the idea of rotating the fan manually to see whether water would come up or not. He tried it and saw that some water was coming up. Then he rotated the fan fast and observed that water was coming up with greater pressure. Then he thought of using a cycle to pump the water, but he had no cycle. At that time, his financial condition was so strained that he had to sell the jowar in his house which had been stored for food and buy an old cycle. He had seen some old gears lying in the compound of an oil mill and he requested the owner to give him these gears and bought some other parts from a waste shop. He also bought a one HP motor and then started working on his pump. He attached his bicycle’s rear rim to the fan with a rope and rotated the bicycles rings fast and was able to pump a good amount of water from a stream to irrigate the paddy.
The tree climber has a seating provision and has two frames. The upper frame is operated by hand while the lower one is operated by leg. The user sits comfortably on the seat and by the up and down movement of upper and lower frame, can climb the tree. A locking system has been provided, which enables the climber to work without fear at any height. To avoid the possibility of a fall, a four lock pin can be fixed at any height. One can climb up to 40 ft in 5 minutes (this includes time needed in fixing, climbing up- down and removal of device from tree). One of the major advantages of this machine is that it is useful for trees with different girth. University of Agricultural Sciences, GVK, Bangalore has tested the device as part of an all India coordinated research project on Post Harvest Technology and found it useful for climbing coconut palms. The team also gave a special mention of its in-built safety feature.
In the earlier ages people used and preferred clay utensils which retain natural taste. Nowadays such utensils are not available in commercial market on a large scale. They are only available in rural areas manufactured on a small scale by local potters for preserving curd etc, and not for cooking. Innovator solved this problem by developing an innovative clay cooker.
- It is a cooker made from special clay with a capacity of 3 litre. The cooker has been made using die and press machine followed by baking in furnaces at high temperature which makes it sturdy and durable.
Arvindbhai developed the "Suraksha tong"- the term Suraksha being used to denote safety. The innovative tongs developed by Arvindbhai handle various vessel types and diameters; have guide ways for proper alignment and knurled jaws for proper gripping. Therefore, it eliminates the possibility of instability, tilting or flipping of the vessel. It prevents accidents and increases user safety by allowing both hands to be engaged in lifting the vessel. The product comprises of two stainless steel handles with plastic sleeve attached to a spring-loaded pair of solid and hollow stainless steel shaft combination.
At each end, a semicircular steel plate is welded and this helps in clamping and holding the rim of the utensils. The solid shaft slides inside the hollow shaft and the motion of the solid shaft is restricted by the spring connected on both the shaft.Due to spring loaded action of clamping the vessel, when utensil is lifted using both hands gripping the handle, there is very less chance of loosing of grip on the vessel The innovation lies in the construction of the sliding mechanism, using solid shaft and hollow shaft and the secure spring loaded clamping of the vessel. In all his endeavours, Arvindbhai has been constantly motivated by his family and for technical support by organizations like GIAN, SRISTI and NIF.
- TRAVEL BAGS WITH FOLDING SEATS
Interestingly, this idea was inspired by super star Shah Rukh Khan. On the way to her grandmother’s home, Nisha saw a huge roadside advertisement for travelling bags that showed Shah Rukh Khan sitting on the floor beside them. She is a die-hard fan of Shah Rukh’s and thought that he should at least have had a chair to sit on.
“Of course, I knew that he chose to sit on the floor. But I also realized that standing while at a bus stop or railway station was a common problem. A pull-out seat attached to a strolley would be very handy while people were waiting,” Nisha shares. With help of her parents, Nisha created a basic prototype of her idea.
Cracking walnuts manually is a plodding and tedious job with low output (maximum 10 kg/h). Innovator thought of developing a machine that could mechanize this process relieving in drudgery involved of doing it manually for hours.
The machine was originally designed to crack walnuts but Mushtaq found it suitable for peeling green walnuts as well. Green walnuts are difficult to peel manually and in the process the skin also gets irritated and sometimes it even flakes off. An improved model of the machine has been developed recently using food grade aluminum rollers for smoother impacting action. The motor RPM has been reduced to increase the efficiency and reduce damage to walnuts of different sizes. The novelty lies in a motorized machine that will crack the walnuts automatically in such a way that it’s useful fruit could be separated easily which is otherwise done manually.
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