Hi. I'm a Anirudh Sharma

Anirudh has conceptualized and developed new ventures in fields as diverse as Augmented reality, Wearable Computing, and Technology for Environmental Impact.

For his work, Anirudh has received the MIT Technology Review 35 under 35, Innovator of the Year Award, a Forbes 30 under 30 award, and a Foreign Policy global thinkers award amongst many others.

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Selected Talks, Podcasts, Awards

  • TED, Toronto, 2018: inks from air pollution;
  • Podcast: Mining unnatural resources, 2018: Kickstarter HQ, New York;
  • TED India, 2017: Star Plus ;
  • INK Fellows 2015: Smart shoes, and Augmented Rulers;
  • Tiger AIR-INK: Hong Kong; Cannes Innovation Festival- Gold Lion, France, 2017;
  • Winner, D&AD Graphite Pencil Award for Creativity and Innovation for AIR-INK; Shell.
  • 'Make the Future’ Award 2017 (Most disruptive impact startup in India);
  • Foreign Policy 100 Global Thinkers Award, Washington DC 2016;
  • Panel, Sankalp Forum, Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi 2015;
  • MIT TR35 ‘ India-Innovator of the Year’ 2011, 35 Innovators under 35;
  • ‘Top Achievement Award’ by Industrial Design Center IIT Delhi Design Degree Show;
  • 2011 Google Summer of Code, 2009 and 2010 scholarship to lead open source NUIGroup and Mozilla projects

Creativity, Technology, Invention

Keynote, The Goa Project 2015; Aspen Ideas Festival 2013, UIST 2014, St. Andrews, Scotland; INK Conference, Kochi 2014

Policy and Government

Sankalp Global Summit 2015, Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi 2015; US Foreign Policy: Global Thinkers Panel, 2016, Washington DC; Confederation of Indian Industry(CII), Innovation Panel 2015;  CES 2014;

Non-Profit

Indian Institute of Science/IISc Bangalore; Aspen, Colorado; Board of Cricket Control in India(BCCI) 2012. ‘Simple embodied sensors to track sportsmen’; 2012 ‘3D User Interfaces & Technologies’ at National Institute of Design campus, Bangalore; ‘Bits, the eyes and the senses’ at FOSS.in 2010- Organized Prototyping session (45 members); ‘Tangible UI and Multitouch’ at RajasFOSS 2010 ‘Minimalist HCI Interfaces’ at FOSSGN09; Keynote,IIT Bombay, E-Summit 2014;

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LECHAL: haptic feedback based navigation shoe (for the blind)

Lechal was started in 2010 with a simple sketch and an Arduino lilypad prototype. This made me quit my job at HP Labs, which HP mentioned.

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Fluid in-fluid

‘Fluid in-fluid’ explores the mingling of liquid colours into water and tries to capture the mixture into an interactive light-form.

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Chalkaat: Augmented Reality Laser-cutting

A pen stroke-based UI for interacting with laser cutters, where the users can express themselves more directly by working directly ‘ on the workpiece’.

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Glassified: Augmenting a traditional ruler with digital functionality

We introduce Glassified, a modified ruler with a transparent display to supplement physical strokes made on paper with virtual graphics. Because the display is transparent, both the physical strokes and the virtual graphics are visible in the same plane

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BallShooter- Tangible Space Invaders

The project explores how kids could be indulged into a collaborative activity using a fun tangible game. We demoed it at the fest.The game is written AS3. A group of children use softballs and throw them on the screen so as to kill the space invaders.

Medical Recommedation

Urino-Doc: An integrated medical advice interface

A human transacts with a toilet almost daily, what else could be a better place than that to integrate Urineanalysis kit within there. We started with an Alcohol analysis kit with contexual intelligent thought provocative messages presented to the user in realtime.

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Sevenbyfive Tessellations

Sevenbyfive is an interactive architectural surface that has the ability to scale and bend out plane at the same time. We create a “second-order” four-way linkage mechanism to achieve this. Generic ball and socket joint connectors allow out of plane movements. We handcasted 800 components over a period of 5 days and motorized them.

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MozArt: Multimodal 3D UI for conceptual modeling

This work is motivated to employ natural expression with fewest restrictions to free CAD users from the tedious command buttons and menu items. We have explored both the hardware and software aspects of the interface, specifically, the use of intuitive speech commands and multitouch gestures on an inclined interactive surface

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Stethoscope to heartbeat monitoring

The aim is to create an interface between our bodies and visual/network power of computers.

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Chalkaat: Augmented Reality Laser-cutting

A pen stroke-based UI for interacting with laser cutters, where the users can express themselves more directly by working directly ‘ on the workpiece’.

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Zixel: A 2.5-D Graphical Tactile Display System

We also define a basic actuated addition to present 2-D pixel form, a physical Z-axis, which caters to the physical manifestation of the virtual object for a rich tactile and graphical feedback. We call the system- Zixel.

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Concept-S: Media mashup wall for kids and elderly

We also define a basic actuated addition to present 2-D pixel form, a physical Z-axis, which caters to the physical manifestation of the virtual object for a rich tactile and graphical feedback. We call the system- Zixel.

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