Innovators of Today

Some new ideas for the future:

i) Robots that can cook

Robots that can cook based on the recipes and the embedded software guide for cooking – Only a trigger by mobile or palm-top should be enough for a particular dish to be cooked by these robots using pre-fetched contents placed in the kitchen and the recipes encoded using AI software. The temperature sensors on the robots can guide them to serve the dish hot or cold.

ii) 3D HD video conferencing – virtual presence of the client is experienced

3D HD projector that tranforms images into objects useful for 3D HD video conferencing – An experience where executives can meet their counterparts in virtual reality by having the full size body images tranformed into full body shadow objects of the real people so that you imagine talking to your colleague across the table without he/she being there. If this becomes true, no need for people to travel across places and people can have all high level face to face meetings sitting in their part of the world. The HD images would be enough to even read facial expressions while proposing new ideas to the client. This will bring human touch to the video conferencing and also it will save lot of fuel by cutting down travel costs. It would help in solving global warming problem as well. The 3D object resolutions should be similar to the professor that comes and answer good questions! from will smith in I-robot.

iii) Virtual Ageing Machine

Virtual Ageing Machine for Introspection and Corrective Action – A gadget that takes into account our current living habits and simulate them for weight gain, pictorial facets and find out accurate dimensions of our body by extrapolating the signs and show us the face and body (that we will have after 10 years) in virtual 3D. This will help humans to recognize what wrong habits they have currently and take corrective action be in the form of physical exercise or mental well-being. Virtual 3D simulation with accurate health parameters as input will even predict what kind of person we will become in future.

iv) Solar and Wind Energy powered lightweight passenger train

In india where we don’t have large oil reserves, it would be worthwhile to use solar energy powered trains in places which are known for less rainfall and extreme solar power abundance. The train coach outside frame can be made of solar panels and on the top we can have special portable windmills that start revolutions as soon as train catch speed. In this way initial solar burst would be used to accelarate the train to an optimum speed after that wind power will come into place. I hope this can really transform rural and urban india into cleaner, greener india for the next generation.

v) Car Transformer

All terrain Car that can walk, swim and fly - Next generation car that can tranform itself into a walking robot if it finds the end of the road or can fly if it sense favorable flying conditions. It can swim if confronted with water.