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IIT Mumbais Hot New Inventions

It’s time to get creative - use any medium and use any form - designing cool models is now the norm. The Annual Design Degree show at the IDC or Industrial Design Centre of IIT Mumbai is on and here’s a short blueprint of which design came of age and which design got sent to the garbage.

Here’s a usual situation. You take your girlfriend out for a nice candle-light dinner. Order for the best food available and wait till the end of time, for the food to arrive. So what do you do besides throwing a chicken leg at the waiter. Well, you could soon check out a better, more automated option. That’s what the e-steward has been created for. Here’s something that doesn’t need a tip. Just a few clicks and a quick swipe to pay off the restaurant bill, and you’re done!

Abhishek Chitranshi, who created e-steward told CNBC-TV18, “Here I have designed an interaction device for restaurants, it is like a system, I call it e-steward, which has three units - Su, Buddy and Cuckoo - Su is for waiter, Buddy for the customer and Cuckoo for the cook, which is a wall mounted unit. You can place your own order from your table and this makes the service efficient and fast, and it will also help increase table-turns.”

Moving on, if you see sweepers on bicycles don’t just report them to the Commissioner yet for slacking off. A new prototype for a street cleaning vehicle is off the drawing board. The cost a measly Rs 25,000, especially when compared to the Rs 2 lakhs option the BMC is considering. So how does it work? Why don’t we ask the designer himself?

Subodh A Morey says, “It is basically a pedal powered street cleaning machine, which is meant for areas like IITB campuses and small industrial areas, the basic functioning of the vehicle is that there are two brushes in the front and there is one central brush. When the user pedals the vehicle and when it is in motion, the brushes rotate because of the interlinked belt drives. The debris is then thrown into the container, which in turn is thrown at various dumping points.”

Then, there was a prototype which looked like a Volkswagen but is a new space-saving design, with an ultra cool look to boot. Featurewise, this tiny marvel sports an in-built removable car cover.

Prabhat Mohapatra, who designed the car explains, “What I have done over here is basically to recess all the windows inside the car so that the body of the car itself, acts as kind of a sunshade. I have integrated the cover of the car in the bumper itself. I have also looked into the aspirations of the user towards a new car, which they will buy in the near future, so the styling of the car has been approached from that consideration.”

Well from rides of fancy to ground realities, these designs showcase the limitless imagination of individuals, who if given the right impetus, might take humanity beyond tomorrow.

Source : http://news.moneycontrol.com/

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