Kanishka Patel and Raj Shah co-founded WeHear to develop non-surgical solutions for people with hearing loss. HearNU, their bone conduction hearing aid, has sold over 11,500 units, earning revenue of Rs 5.5 crore. They also secured a deal of Rs 2.5 crore on Shark Tank India Season 3.
20-year-old Madhav Lavakare from Delhi has built Transcribe Glass, inspired by Google Glass, a device that processes information from live conversations, Google, Microsoft and other platforms to convert speech to text
Spending money on hearing devices, carrying them around, changing batteries, facing the social stigma associated with hearing aids in India – people with hearing issue have to face several difficulties. But not anymore! A Pune-based company has come up with a free, mobile-based hearing solution and it is super easy to use.
From producing oxygen whenever and wherever required to using fertilizer products for making anaesthetics, these medical innovations that came out of a jugaad-a-thon could improve health conditions in rural India.
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