Bangladesh
A clip-on that turns a stethoscope into a heart screening tool won Grameenphone’s AI contest
Three student teams took the prizes at the second FutureMakers final: a stethoscope attachment, a river erosion early-warning system and a…
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World
An Ohio company says it can put out a fire with sound instead of water
Water puts fires out and ruins what it touches. A company in Ohio is betting that low-frequency sound can do the first job without the…
Technology
Three class-nine students built a self-charging delivery robot for Tk 1 lakh — and chose the three hardest problems in the field to solve
Navigation, secure handover and autonomous charging. Each is a problem commercial operators spend millions on, and the third is the one…
Technology
Seven innovators get Tk18.5 lakh to Tk90 lakh in seed money from a2i — four of them for smart water meters, two for pregnancy monitoring, one for government letters
At BAF Shaheen Hall the government’s Aspire to Innovate programme handed grants to seven winners of its innovation challenge: IoT water…