WHEN four engineering students at the Goa campus of the Birla Institute of Technology (BITS) Pilani undertook a modest research project to make the learning of braille easier they hardly imagined that it would make them globally famous.
Some seven years later, however, their invention, now named Polly in the US, figures in a list of the best inventions of 2022 put together by Time magazine. In step with this stardom, their campus initiative, Project Mudra, has transformed into a trendily named start-up, Thinkerbell Labs (TL).
Polly is a wi-fi enabled device which was finally. . .