7. A dual pin stapler The third-year mechanical engineering students at IIT-Gandhinagar came up with the brilliant idea of the dual pin stapler. Suyash Patkar, Saurabh Garg and Spandan Das made a single stapler machine that dispenses both large and small pins, so that you don’t have to buy two separately. Now, how thoughtful is that?

Don’t you just (just in case definition) hate it when your headphones get tangled? Some bright minds at IIT-Kharagpur came up with a solid solution that would end our first world problems. Witworks Rewind is a lightweight compact cord organiser that doesn’t let your earphones tangle, therefore making it long-lasting. Priced at an affordable Rs. 199, the gadget is now …

IIT-BHU students made an innovative alcohol sensing helmet that won’t let you start a bike if you’re drunk. The Advanced Breathanalyser Helmet, that uses the bluetooth encryption technology, was among the top 5 short-listed projects at the Ericsson Innovation Awards held at IIT Delhi.

Image Credit: hummingwhale.com The same duo behind Humming Whale came up with a kickass idea of re-writable t-shirts. This is a unique t-shirt on which you can write and erase. The t-shirt was a hit on online shopping websites and was worn by a movie cast that appeared on popular TV show Bigg Boss.

3. Walking on water ride [embedplusvideo height=”283″ width=”450″ editlink=”http://bit.ly/1LH1urd” standard=”http://www.youtube.com/v/vr2eNBNm-LY?fs=1″ vars=”ytid=vr2eNBNm-LY&width=450&height=283&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=&notes=” id=”ep5982″ /] How can someone walk on water? It’s impossible, right? Well, Mirik Gogri and Ayush Jain, two IIT-Bombay alumni have made the impossible possible. The duo formed Humming Whale Product Innovations, a company that innovates path-breaking products and solutions. The team came up with a fun idea of walking …

Drones Image Credit: yourstory.com We wonder if the IIN ad was inspired from the IIT Bombay students who invented NETRA. NETRA is an autonomous hovering Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), a drone that helps the Indian army with rescue operations during natural calamities.  

1. E-scooter IIT-Madras students slogged in their dorms to build an e-scooter, the battery of which charges faster than a phone. S340 is one of the first smart e-scooters, and its battery charges within an hour. It can easily go on for 50,000 kilometres with its battery pack.  

Around 300 million people in the world are visually impaired and face difficulties every day in activities as basic as walking. Anirudh Sharma and Krispian Lawrence came up with an interesting idea to simplify the lives of visually impaired people. Read their journey of change and how they designed a special haptic shoe line that helps the blind navigate easily. Imagine a scenario …

Introducing: the paper battery (image credit: Jonathan Cohen) If you’ve ever struggled to fold paper into the shape of a flying crane, you’ll already be familiar with origami. But Seokheun Choi, an engineer at Binghamton University in the US, has created something a little more unusual out of folded paper: a battery. The size of a matchbook, and costing just …

Image credit: NASA/SDO The Sun emits radiation right across the electromagnetic spectrum, from extremely high-energy X-rays to ultra-long-wavelength radio waves, and everything in-between. Karen Olsen, Leicester The Sun emits radiation right across the electromagnetic spectrum, from extremely high-energy X-rays to ultra-long-wavelength radio waves, and everything in-between. The peak of this emission occurs in the visible portion of the spectrum. Different …