Stanford backs Delhi girl’s idea: Pulse charger
New Delhi: A Delhi school girl’s idea of using human pulse beats to charge electronic devices like cellphones has caught the fancy of Stanford University, which will now partner with the National Innovation Foundation of India (NIF) to incubate and develop the concept.
Paul Kim, Assistant Dean and Chief Technology Officer at Stanford, got in touch with Prof Anil Gupta, NIF executive vice-chairperson, this afternoon with a proposal to develop the idea into a product. “They have pledged $1,000 as a symbolic initiation into the project,” Prof Gupta, who teaches at IIM, A, said.
Fifteen-year-old Sarojini Mahajan, a student of Class 9 at St Mark’s Senior Secondary School, Meera Bagh, first discussed the idea with her teacher in class in July, and subsequently entered it for IGNITE ‘09, NIF’s innovative ideas competition for schoolchildren across India. She won a consolation prize — the results of the competition were declared today — but Stanford located the idea on NIF’s data base, and decided to incubate it.
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