Solved in India + Amazon's new product-Echo

1.Solved in India
Hello everyone,
the first piece of this blog is about team of three members from Bangalore who try to solve a very general problem.We all love music,some like to listen it aloud  and some like to enjoy it in solace on earphones.Most of the times we see that wires of this earphones get entangled and some of the people like me find it their favorite time pass and a sense of achievement to untangle these wires.But many of them find it completely irritating to untangle it when the urge to listen to your favorite song gets very strong or to attend an extremely private call from your GF/BF becomes critical.So this team observed this and thought to solve it  in a desi way(don't get me wrong this is not a jugaad)


They started it by doing a CAD/CAM design of the product and tried and tested various designs and f arrived at a final design shown in the picture which was 3-D printed.

This team of 3 members have called their startup as wizworks and they have commercially manufactured this product for all of us.Its name is "rewind"and it is priced at 190 rupees.The product is available on the website itself.

Kudos to this team for manufacturing this product in Indian style.A way to go for them...


Find more at:witworks.com

2.Amazon -Echo

Today there is no need to introduce Amazon.com to you,an online-retail behemoth which has constantly innovated with its offerings and private labels has now  intr4oduced Amazon echo.Already having entered in the smart phone market by launching Amazon fire phone. the company has now  forayed into a very promising project and have successfully developed Amazon-echo.

What is Amazon-echo
It is a cylindrical device which looks like a speaker(and a deo in the picture!),recognises voice and does many things.The most important thing it does is it answers many of your questions by using cloud.Whenever you ask something it will  search for content on web and deliver answers.You can address this device as Alexa and if you say,"Alexa tell me whats the length of howrah bridge" it will tell you the answer.The other important thing it does is plays music and you can access Alexa from any corner of your room depending on the wifi capabilities.Alexa is primarily built to use voices as inputs.The other interesting about Alexa is it can also set up your to-do list and help you with reminders.

Though it is not launched in India yet, but it is available on invitation for 200$ in US.

The main objective of including this idea in my blog is because it displays integration of different technologies like cloud computing and voice recognition(Remember the ambulance drone??)into a device which makes technology more interactive with humans.Though not at par with the innovations done like google glass but this device is worth a mention.
Find more at-amazon.com








Disclaimer-This blog does not intend to promote any product but instead intends to promote ideas and people behind these products

Yotaphone and why is India so filthy?

Yotaphone

Hello everyone,
Today's blog is going to be about a phenomenal idea YOTAPHONE.Yotaphone is world's first dual screen phone!The phone is manufactured by a Russian comapny-Yota.The concept of having two screens is very unique in itself and the Yota were the first to implement it .The front screen of the screen is a regular smartphone screen but the back screen is the innovation we are talking about.The back screen is a black and white screen which actually doesn't run on the battery.This screen is called as paper screen which is similar to the kindle e-book reader(So you don't need to but that kindle you were planning to buy).The e-paper screen can work for more than 35 hours without battery.You can upload anything and everything on this back screen and read.I will not mention the technical specifications and the price, I will leave that for you to find out.To make it easy here is the link-http://www.flipkart.com/yota-phone-c9660/p/itmeyxg6b9gahv3z




Swatch Bharat Abhiyan-Why is India so filthy?
I said that this blog is going to be about Ideas.This was a brilliant Idea of our Prime Minister or Pradhan Sewak as he likes himself to be called as.He spoke about it on the Independence day speech and said he will kick-off the initiative on 2nd October-Mahatma Gandhi's anniversary.On eve of 2ndOctober he sent a Government Resolution-GR-which read that each government employee should go to his workplace and clean his workplace along with the surrounding area of the workplace.Though some turned their noses up but it was a great start for such a huge campaign on a national level.Further Mr.Modi nominated nine famous nine personalities to take up the Abhiyan and asked them to in turn nominate nine more to spread the chain.This was taken up by the social media quite well and is being supported.
The Idea to be implemented with the same zeal needs constant encouragement and more importantly constant engagement.It is not the duty of only Mr.Modi, this is a responsibility we all should share to make it successful.I don't have any intent of preaching here but would like to share a video which will definitely convey what can be done and what has been done till now!

I for IDEA

Hello everyone,
This is my first blog.
I am excited and I assume that reading someone's first blog is also exciting.So just today I was thinking what should I dedicate my blog to and what should be the content? I had been always amazed by the Ideas.So,this blog is going to be about the Ideas I and you come across while living our life,Ideas which are simple and which when implemented made our lives even simpler. It is also going to be about raising awareness about certain things which are important  for our well-being.
We will try to make this world a better place by promoting our IDEAS.

I for Idea
What is an Idea???
Idea is a thought in your mind which can trigger a course of action.

30/10/2014
1. Withdraw money without an ATM card from ATM
Many a times we forget to carry our ATM card also we are worried if someone steals our wallet with ATM card/cards inside it .But we always carry our Mobile phones and now we would be able to withdraw money from ATM with our mobile phones!!
A bank has started a wonderful initiative under  mobile banking where you can withdraw money without an ATM card from the ATM.
How does it work?
An account holder can register for the service at the branch  and you will receive a mobile ATM pin.When you go to an ATM on the screen it will show two options 1.With ATM card 2.without ATM card
You need to choose second option where you would enter your mobile number and then the mobile pin which bank will provide.Then you will be messaged a One Time Password with the help of which you can do most of the transactions like withdrawing,transferring money etc.
So if you forget your ATM card need not worry...!!
Banks providing this Facility-BOI,ICICI

2.Ambulance Drone
This a very wonderful Idea executed by Alec Momont,a graduate student in Belgium.Ambulance drone is a drone which has medical toolbox mounted over it and the drone is GPS enabled.The medical toolbox contains a defibrillator(usually used in heart attacks) which is used to stop the unsynchronous motion of the heart muscles and brings it back to the normal.This can be a boon for the person suffering from heart attacks as this drone will let the treatment start within 5 minutes.
How does it work?
Any body in emergency can call the particular number the drone will detect the location of the caller and will reach to it with the help of GPS.Once the drone reaches the patient the treatment can be started.Though the concept has just been prototyped and tested it will not take much time to bring it in the main stream of technologies used by emergency help providers.
The beauty of this Idea is we have merged two different technologies(drone+medical toolbox) and created a product which can be life-saver.These are the kinds of ideas which motivate us to think more and create something better.

This is the first blog so would like to keep it short
Signing off
Swapnil Tikar