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TBI Innovations: Let There Be Light – A Low Cost DIY Torch

Professor Vikram Dinubhai Panchal has designed a Do-It-Yourself Light Torch that can be assembled with low-cost and easily available materials. This torch has the potential to be mass-produced for a fraction of the cost of conventional torches currently available, and is easy enough to be created by a lay person.

October 31, 2012 / 1 Comment / Read More

Green Products Come In Many Colours – Creative Eco-Friendly Stuff For Everyday Use!

September 27, 2012 No Comment

Biodegradable waste has had a makeover – and now it is available in a range of creative products that will change the look of your house and liven it up! Check out some amazing products right here..

Milaap – Give And Let Live

August 10, 2012 No Comment

Parameswaran had to carry his disabled daughter to the fields everyday so that she could relieve herself, till he could get a loan to build a toilet in his house. Murugayee and her family of nine had to depend on the public water supply in her village, where they had to stand in long queues [...]

TBI Innovations: ZIMBA – A Simple Machine To Quench The Thirst For Clean Water

May 3, 2012 4 Comments

An affordable device that does not need electricity or moving gears but runs only on gravity, is scientist Suprio Das’s answer to water contamination. Nilanjana Nag Pereira reports. Odd as it may seem, innovation and its usage have become inversely proportionate today. Says scientist Suprio Das, “90 per cent of our leading designs are created [...]