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Micah Yairi, CTO, Tactus Technology. He was working on ways to deliver drugs through the skin using microfluidics.

Buttons that pop out over touch displays

by Virat Markandeya |Nov 18, 2014

Tactus Technology, a California-based company, has been working on buttons that physically morph out and then flatten back from a thin panel that can be placed over touchscreens.

Running half an hour can provide three hours of smartphone recharge

AMPY mobile charger uses body-motion, kinetic energy to recharge

by Virat Markandeya |Nov 19, 2014

Using the AMPY alongside a half-hour run, for example, may provide three hours of smartphone recharge.

Packs flat: Roll-to-roll manufacturing can scale up production (Illustration: Raj Verma)

Foldscope: An origami microscope made of paper

by Virat Markandeya |Nov 18, 2014

Called Foldscope, the microscope can be cut out of paper and fitted together with small lenses, batteries and an LED to a make bookmark-sized microscope.

Amit Soman, COO, EcoMotors Head.

EcoMotors has the ability to connect two engines side by side: COO Amit Soman

by Virat Markandeya |Sep 23, 2014

Tighter fuel economy standards are coming and what exists are fossil fuel burning options. So what are the options then to bridge these two things?

Photo:  Reuters

Glori Energy promises to extract more oil from depleted wells

by Virat Markandeya |Aug 9, 2014

Building on methods developed by TERI and ONGC in India, Glori Energy, a Texas-based company, says it can extract another nine to 12 per cent - a third more than the oil originally extracted - whi...

'I did not think out of the box, I thought through and through the box,' says Vinay Mehta, Founder, VENTiT.

VENTiT: Boxes That Allow Warm But Not Soggy Pizzas

by Virat Markandeya |Jul 17, 2014

Pizza boxes face a twin challenge: how to keep the pizzas warm but let the steam out so they don't get soggy. A Mumbai businessman found an elegant solution that has been patented in over 70 count...

Iceotope: Dunking server blades in liquid to keep them cool

by Virat Markandeya |Jun 14, 2014

Iceotope, a UK-based company, has created a system that immerses server blades - literally dunks them - in a special fluid. Not only does this make the cooling system silent, without the whirr of...

LiquiGlide: A coating to help that ketchup slide out

by Virat Markandeya |Jul 1, 2014

Dave Smith, a former MIT graduate student, along with his then professor, Kripa Varanasi, came up with a neat solution: a surface coating that can be applied to the inside of the bottle to make t...

Picture for representational purpose.

Gecko Biomedical's adhesive performs in the heart's lub-dub

by Virat Markandeya |Jun 19, 2014

A Paris-based start-up, Gecko Biomedical has shown in animal testing that its adhesive can be elastic enough to hold heart tissue, despite the heart pumping at 180 beats per minute.

Jyoti Panda believes nanostructures of peptides, the building blocks of proteins, could be the magic bullet for drug delivery

Treating brain tumour with a nanotech-based drug delivery system

by Virat Markandeya |May 26, 2011

A nanotech-based drug delivery system holds the promise of more effective brain tumour treatment.