India Innovation Initiative 2014

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Information

1. Entry Guidelines and Process
   Please download the detailed entry guidelines and process by clicking here.
2. India Innovation Initiative 2014 Ad
   Please download the ad for India Innovation Initiative 2014 by clicking here.
3. India Innovation Initiative 2014 Ad (5th September, 2014)
   Please download the ad for India Innovation Initiative 2014 by clicking here.
4. Evaluation Criteria for NF Jury_i3 2014
   Please download the Evaluation Criteria for NF Jury_i3 2014 by clicking here.

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  Objectives

  The objective of the “India Innovation Initiative 2014” is to strengthen the entrepreneurial eco-system in the country by sensitizing, encouraging and promoting student innovators and facilitating commercialization of their innovations, and recognizing India’s most potential Entrepreneurs.
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  Benefits and Awards

  1. Promoting a culture of innovation in India.
  2. Identifying, rewarding and facilitating commercialization of potential innovations,
  3. Addressing the various socio-economic challenges of industry and society through innovations.
  4. Promotion of India's innovation prowess in Science and Technology nationally.
  5. Empowering people to create new ventures and start-ups as an alternative career option.
  6. Rewarding successful innovators by connecting them to industry, investors and incubators.
  7. Promoting entrepreneurship and generating new jobs / employment
  8. Top innovators and potential entrepreneurs will be recognized and awarded.
  9. i3 partners to provide incubation & mentoring support to select i3 participants.
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  Important Dates

  1. Announcement for Call for Entries : 5th September 2014
  2. Last date for Online Submission of application form : 15 Oct 2014
  3. Announcement of shortlisted projects : 25 Oct 2014
  4.     National Fair at Knowledgexpo 2014 : 20-22 Nov14

 Terms and conditions

1. The participants should be Indian Nationals.
2. The participants should have a prototype of their innovation.
3. All participants to adhere to the last dates for different stages as mentioned in the website
4. The jury is constituted by all the partners of i3 and eminent people from Government, Industry and Academia
5. The assessment criteria for awardees and/or participating individuals/persons shall not be challengeable at any stage.
6. The decision of the i3 Jury at all levels (Online and National Fair) shall be final and binding. All participants have to abide by the decision of the jury.
7. No interim or later communication with regard to the decision or its veracity shall be entertained and shall be viewed seriously.
8. CII may take necessary action as per its discretion against the participant, in the event of violation of the terms and conditions.
9. Innovations which were part the i3 competition for last 5 years (2011, 20112& 2013) are not eligible to take part in the i3 2014 National Open Challenge.

Innovation Categories

Innovation Categories and Submissions

1. Education
2. Healthcare
3. Water
4. Energy
5. Transportation
6. Agriculture
7. Sanitation
8. Infrastructure
9. Environment
10. IT & Communication
11. Skill Development
12. Others

electronica India and productronica India 2014 at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, Bangalore,

electronica India and productronica India is the three day event going to take place at Bangalore International Exhibition Centre, Bangalore, India. It will be the most important communication platform for the electronics industry, electronica India and productronica India will display the specialized technologically sound products ranging from semiconductors, sensors, relays, switched and interconnection technology to passive components, motors/drives, cables, ED/EDA, assemblies and subsystems to test and measurement technology, Displays and power supplies. With electronica India and productronica India, the entire value-added chain of the electronics industry is presented.


Links: http://www.electronica-productronica-india.com/

         http://www.electronica-india.com/en/home.html

         http://media.nmm.de/17/2014_eindia_factsheet_final_27550217.pdf

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Teen Invents Artificial Arm Controlled by Bluetooth-Powered Brain Waves

Some of the most innovative inventions these days are coming from the minds of babes. We told you last year about the teen in Canada who invented a flashlight powered by the human hand. Now another teen inventor is getting some well deserved attention for an even more ambitious project -- an artificial arm that can be controlled by Bluetooth-powered brainwaves.

The invention is the work of 15-year-old high-school sophomore Shiva Nathan, and he was inspired to design the prosthetic, called the Arduino Prosthesis, when his cousin in India lost both of her arms in an explosion.

"Originally I was designing a video game [with a Mindwave Mobile headset, a component of the arm], but around that time I learned about a relative of mine who lost both of her arms in an incident," he told Design News. "I was reading about the prosthetics she had, and they were very expensive and not that good. I realized I could build something better than that and decided to.

"Nathan abandoned the video game idea (which he later revisited and built) and set out to build the Arduino Prosthesis, an upper-extremity prosthetic arm with a microcontroller than can measure brainwaves registered by an electroencephalogram (EEG) in the headset, which a user wears secured to his or her head with a headband.

The Mindwave Mobile headset is a fairly inexpensive off-the-shelf EEG device that acts as a brain control interface (BCI) when connected to an Arduino microcontroller. The third key component is the servos in the arm and wrist of the prosthetic itself, which can be from 12 to 18 inches long.

Basically, the headset can recognize two mental states of the person wearing it -- attention and meditation -- and converts those into numerical values that it sends to the microcontroller to move the arm via its servos based on threshold values set by Nathan. "There are two different values for attention and meditation," he explained. The values are set between zero to 100, and if a person's brain waves supersede those values the microcontroller will move the prosthetic. "If attention exceeds 30, the prosthetic's fingers will flex. If meditation exceeds 50, the elbow will rotate."

These are the only movements the prosthetic has so far, but he is working on other models for individual finger control and wrist movement.

Nathan entered the prosthetic in two contests: the 2013 National microMedic Contest, held last year and hosted and sponsored by the US Army Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center, and Parallax Inc.; and the 2014 Bluetooth Breakthrough Awards held in January of this year. He won awards in both for a total of $10,000 in products and prize money.

Nathan said he has not yet been approached by a company to commercialize his prosthetic, but he does have his own, open-source plans for doing so once he achieves more advanced movements with it. "I am going to offer the schematics and programs online for free so anyone can built it themselves, but also offer prebuilt models," he said, following a popular pricing model in the open-source community that the Arduino microcontroller in the prosthetic also uses. Nathan said he could not in good conscience leave the open-source community out of the project, since he used open-source components and ideas to build the prosthesis.

Nathan's use of his prize money also shows his community spirit. He will use some of the money to help open a center to promote science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education in his hometown. The remaining prize money will go to build more models of the Arduino Prosthesis, as well as toward his fund to attend college, where he plans to study engineering, computer science, and neurology -- not necessarily together nor in that order, he said.

Reference: 

http://www.designnews.com/author.asp?section_id=1386&doc_id=272470&itc=dn_analysis_element&dfpPParams=ind_184,industry_consumer,industry_medical,aid_272470&dfpLayout=blog&dfpPParams=ind_184,industry_consumer,industry_medical,aid_272470&dfpLayout=blog&dfpPParams=ind_184,industry_consumer,industry_medical,aid_272470&dfpLayout=blog

Inaugural function on 12th August 2014