interstellar traveling and key in space
debris no these are just few examples of
some super fantastic science fiction
concepts we’ve all heard of well these
are technological pursuits will show
human ingenuity we sometimes need to
pause and talk around us we need to
consider how our projects are changing
the lives of people who are often
overlooked by the society now consider
for instance your maid who does your
housekeeping she might probably not even
have a bank account this is a slum right
next to this auditorium and I’m pretty
sure most of you haven’t even noticed it
we have witnessed different kinds of
inequalities based on gender economic
disparity and caste
however today I’m going to talk about
something which they haven’t told us or
probably not too easy to spot inequality
based on change of technology now I am
sorry apparently I am a fourth year
biomedical engineering student and I’m
also a research coordinator under dr.
Aaron Shankar now he is my mentor and he
has taught me that whatever your age
might be and whatever field of study you
might be in we all can come up with
innovative solutions and ideas with a
cost-effective twist
he makes students do what I like to call
socially inspired projects now this is
the term to God which me amines are
completely familiar with there it be use
this term in all instances to explain to
God I’m still showing
that’s the full picture this is an
innovative cost-effective time effective
way of traveling what we need to
understand out here is that to God is
simple the way meaning being that
finding simple yet elegant solutions to
problems around us and I strongly
believe that putting forward to God as a
mindset or a way of life can change the
world as we know it now let us
understand what sustainable the
government is now we’re only going to
sustainable the government let us see
the definition of sustainability as
given in the Oxford Dictionary I want
you I want you all to pick two that
should do this all right so um I want
you to read this and completely scrap it
off your mind because sustainability is
different for different people but some
in might be using a glass bottle instead
of a plastic one for others it might be
simply recycling waste for me
sustainability is about putting forward
affordable healthcare solutions and
visions remote areas of the world you
need to reinvent the definition of
sustainability for yourself and to do
that I’m going to show you what I call
the circle of sustainable innovation
each segment of this circle is going to
teach you into God and how to apply it
as a frame of mind to bring about
solutions to social problems now this is
not really there’s not really a
foolproof way of becoming successful but
I’m pretty sure most of you can create
innovative
these advisors as students one of our
biggest queries it is how do I start a
project where do I find an inspiration
for a light here I’m one answer for that
question you need to turn adversity into
opportunity I see students with
fantastic ideas wanting to start company
how can you start a company without even
going through the process of innovation
so just this week I met these couple of
biomedical engineers and they had this
idea they came up with this problem
statement and when I asked them where to
find his idea from and he said oh please
daddy me visualize the problem
how can you visualize the problem they
also expected doctors to help them out
in find solutions so do not solve
problems based on a fictional fictional
idea right
search for problems such around you
don’t find solutions to problems which
do not even exist so this brings me out
to think of one of the projects which I
have done so India has nine point 1
million unvaccinated children under the
age of five
what we see is that this this particular
number then all smoothly to the migrant
community might evoke this travel from
place to place and use their health
cards now this is a major issue how many
of you remember one vaccine was given to
you advocate I don’t remember what
vaccines forget it to me this because
will issue especially for migrant
workers the fact that they are not able
to complete the complete immunization
schedule of their
children and they face life-threatening
diseases we came up with a very simple
solution for this called back seeding
blasini also one human High Commission
sustainability challenge so that to me
is a two prong solution it gives a
second is very ugly and into exact yes
there may be is something as you can see
in the picture it’s usually worn around
baby’s hands in India the digital tag
stores all the information of vaccines
given to the baby how do we do that is
with our custom-made battery the
application the mechanism of using
vaccinate is very simple it absolutely
was one two three all you need to do is
scan update and sync a health worker is
going to use Vaseline application and
tap on to the bracelets that the bill is
very and she didn’t get access to all
the information written onto the beam
individual tab now if this health worker
wants to see what vaccine what what if
the health worker administered new
vaccines all have oka needs to do is tap
appear again and there you go all the
vaccines which are administered today
unregistered it to be this is also
stored on to a central server as you can
see out here on the salt or on to the
central server where you can change and
keep editing the way you want so this is
a very simple technology it consists
nothing but a simple V which can store
vital information of all the health
records possible what do you understand
from this is that no matter how simple
things are you need to make it
cost-effective and ensure that it
reaches right people you have to be able
to talk to you stakeholders and
and their problems you need to make your
products super user-friendly now let’s
look at how to make products that you
can need something like to achieve a
brighter faster these are all
innovations but remember that these are
supposed to change people who you have
made this for this brings me to another
concept called design thinking
impression most suitable accordance in
conferences or business curves no Design
Thinking is nothing but developing
products which are visually appealing
which drives the revenue this is a
fantastic concept for driving revenue
isn’t really innovative and
cost-effective enough to reach out to
people I believe we need to change the
philosophy of design thinking the social
design taking we need to meet products
which are visually appealing but at the
same time are actively affordable
affordability is the key in
underdeveloped and developing nations
this magic of Science and Technology is
usually restricted to the rich it’s
important that we transcend economic
values and reach out science and
technology to people who deserve it now
this will be on to an example of
technological innovation which focuses
on design thinking now as I see out you
this is a tank’s machine
Thames machine is nothing but an
electric solenoid producing machine so
doctors use it for they intervene and
take occasionally treatments now this
machine is super expensive and the
treatment are also increases because of
this one who tell you that this
sophisticated machine can be put in
as mundane as a macro all you need to do
is use a bucket water which produces the
electric stimuli as soon as you flip the
switch so something as complex as a TENS
machine can be put into something as
simple as a marker which reduces the
entire cost of treatment let’s take this
a step forward and talk about creating
through new enterprises now social
enterprises are really very important
for the fact that we need to reach out
to vast majorities of our population
frugal enterprises do not really think
about customers with their super complex
designs all we want to do is reach out
to their customers and provide
cost-effective solutions they tap the
untapped market and reach out to people
now India has been facing a major
problem of diabetes with diabetes are
also other complications like two
objects a flu neuropathy now this
particular problem starts off with
losing sensation of your foot and with
unhealthy food cancer genes you can get
ulcers and Kantian this is a major
problem now I’ll come up with a solution
to make an insole which can see the
prognosis of diabetic peripheral
neuropathy all this insole has is basic
three electronic confidence it has a
battery of YouTube module and a vibrator
these vibrators vibrate at random
intervals of time and all the patient
needs to do is click on the app whenever
they feel the vibration this app also
stores in the entire data of whenever
the patient has clicked and / gives it
to the doctor the doctor can see how the
prognosis of
these ducted peripheral neuropathy
started by this particular app now this
invention has nothing but a simple foot
sole which has been tweaked to give a
beautiful result this is the app as you
can see now it’s very important that we
understand that while innovating there
going to be circumstances there you come
up with something different altogether
your goal might be in but you end up
bringing in something else altogether
there were in architecture students were
met and they wanted to reinvent Lego
blocks so they made this beautiful box
to keep in the Lego but their ultimate
goal was to gene names Lego blocks and
make them accessible to Indians so they
consider Lego blocks which is super
expensive so they wanted to make
something cheaper what it turned out to
be is that they do not really succeed in
making actual Lego blocks but they found
a new market altogether by making the
beautiful construction box so there is
no fancy word to explain this kind of
innovation but all I want to say is this
is called failing forward you might
think the first time you might possibly
fail the second time you will also feel
the floating in time the remember the
bottom you are failing
you’re always failing forward you are
learning something new you’re learning
that there are 10,000 ways how not to
make a life of soap a la is a process of
in a way
and this is only going to make you
better also ideals by itself
what nothing you need to be able to
build a concept around your idea to
reach out to people innovation is all
about endurance innovation is lik like I
I like to call it self transcendence
self transcendence is making yourself a
part of this universe and changing it
with the concepts you have to doubt one
of the things which I notice with people
is that then I will they come up with an
idea all they want to do is say I’m
going to start making an airplane I’m
going to start making a rocket wait hold
on you need to start with basic
miniature versions you need to start
cutting paper would turn steel and come
up with models and miniature warships
and designs which you can understand and
try to tweak this is a part of
innovation we seem to be amateur to the
breaking and building things we should
not be we should always start with
making miniature models where we can
understand how to move forward with a
particular innovation and trust me doing
this you’re going to learn these sense
of innovation and you will be of course
to be reckoned and you have ideas for
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