Professor on quest for India's hidden inventors - most powerful electric toothbrush

SEHORE-43 degrees Celsius (110 degrees Fahrenheit), professor, India
Anil Gupta has been hiking for hours on the scorched plains of central India.
But when he entered a small village looking for another unknown genius, he smiled happily.
"If you have any new ideas, or you have any new inventions, I am here to promote you," he told a dusty roadside crouching on the Hindu Lord Shiva.
For more than 20 years, Gupta has been looking for hidden innovations in rural India, motivated by the belief that the most powerful idea of fighting poverty and difficulties will not come from the corporate research laboratory, but from ordinary people struggling to survive.
Gupta and his assistant found more than 25,000 inventions on the bike.
Install the crop sprayer onto an electric brush that never needs to be immersed in a paint can.
With the blessing of the inventor, he spread free of charge from one poor village to another, with many cheap, simple ideas.
He is working to bring some products to the market and ensure that innovators get credit and profits, which will also stimulate others to create.
Many ideas are recorded in his database, waiting for some investors to discover their potential.
He often allocates small grants from government funds or his own network of organizations to help poor innovators complete their projects. The 59-year-
The old management professor, with a thick white beard, reminds people of the sage of the bitter monk. He said that he did not get any economic benefits from his discovery, but in the process of discovery, with almost
"Every time we go to a place, we find a solution that we can't imagine, and we find that desire," he said . ".
Many people focus on agriculture: a more productive variety of peppers, a temporary seat that allows coconut harvesters to rest on high trees, a hollow spear, it pierced a hole in the field and fell in the seed.
There are traditional herbs for heel and muscle soreness, stoves and engines improved to improve efficiency, and by 13-year-
As he watched his mother pick up the pebbles from another bag of grain wearily, he was old.
And eyebrows --
Lift: a washing machine mounted at the back of the scooter and driven by an engine, a body-armor with herbs, absorbing the shock power of bullets, amphibious bicycles.
Gupta received 1 Pa Dema Shri, the highest honor of the Indian government.
He worked with the Indian president to pay tribute to the innovators.
He helped find the government.
Sponsored National Innovation Foundation, often speaking at top business meetings, recently contacted one of India's largest retailers, the Future Group, to bring some of the most promising discoveries to market.
Consumers will be attracted by products.
Everything.
Add natural cookies to your toothbrush --
Ashni Biyani, a future group executive, said that because profit is a good business and because of the subtle simplicity of the invention.
"These ideas are rooted in the context of India," she said . ".
The exploration of Gupta has promoted inventors in rural India, who are like "crazy" uncles repairing and mending in garages around the world until he arrives and announces that they are geniuses, his neighbors thought he was crazy.
Take Nattubhai Vader, a farmer in Gujarat, who watched women and children harvest a particularly troublesome cotton variety and thought there must be a better way.
He said that Vida designed a huge device for rotating rubber hoses and vacuum cleaners, and then adjusted it obsessively, which are installed on tractors and can be picked in an hour
Before his wife threatened to divorce him, he invested more than $20,000 into the harvester if he did not save the rest of his family for the child's education.
A few years later, Gupta found Vader and gave him the funds to start over, and now plans to introduce a team of engineering students to improve it.
At the heart of the Gupta mission is his week-long hard training, which includes a 20-kilometer (12-mile) hike every day in hot summer and cold winter, sleep in the school yard at night with food for lentils.
The idea is to scare away the disloyal "tourists" and let the participants experience the life of the farmers.
"Your eyes will open and you will see what you have never seen before," Akash Badave, 23year-
Gupta said that Gupta told him before the first of his three Shodh Yatras that he was ready to become a rural administrator.
"This is the case.
"During the most recent trek along the dry slopes of Central State, Gupta was accompanied by dozens of followers: Curious about young urban people in rural poverty, A group of inventors who came to look for what he had collected from his previous journey.
He started hiking after arriving on a night flight from China, marching in rubber sandals, and despite the hot weather, he drank very little water and even fasted for a day.
He came to a village that was rarely visited by outsiders, just like a circus came to town.
He distributed colorful magazines and brochures to show farmers how to make natural pesticides with local plants and treat cattle diseases with a spice mixture, extend the life of their pump by sticking old tires to the handle.
He called on them to come up with their own ideas.
"The solution to our problems is not so lacking," he declared . "
For example, he introduced Amrit Agrawat who watched the village women struggle to pull out heavy buckets from the well more than 20 years ago.
Agrawat made a pulley with automatic brakes so that women could rest without the bucket falling down. It costs $7.
A man said: "Now my wife can pick up her mobile phone while drinking water.
"Agra Watt sold his 5,000 pulleys, but donated one to each village along the way and encouraged the farmers to copy it themselves.
In Dhaboti, a drummer escorted Gupta through the street and shouted Murali Dar, an 80-year-old villager who hobbled on crutches with branches.
The powder made from these powders can cure fever, he said.
Another man brought herbs to treat jaundice and another man brought wild lemons to treat animal cramps.
Kanhiaya Lal, 62, brought the branch he used to make the snake bite the antidote.
"If I die, the secret will die with me," he said . ".
The assistant recorded the products in a notebook.
Then, at a simple ceremony, Gupta gave everyone a certificate and put a shawl on his shoulder.
In the village of mogula, a truck is parked in a lump of dust in the courtyard where Gupta and his team spent the night.
When his brother told Abdul Rahim Khan the arrival of someone who might eventually appreciate his work, he had rushed over.
The farmer unloaded a mini-ginning machine for less than $4, saving 10 times the processing cost per year.
"This is a very good idea," Gupta said . "
Next is a wooden feed cutter made with a fraction of the cost of metal feed on the market. Any more ideas? Gupta asked.
Khan has been designing for more efficient soybean harvesters, but he doesn't have a prototype of Rs 8,000 ($150), he said.
Gupta promised him money.
Khan's obsession made him the object of ridicule.
"Now, I am very happy that someone has endorsed my idea and tried to move forward," he said . ".
Gupta is also very happy. Out-of-the-
Box thinkers need to be encouraged, not insulted, he said.
Gupta insists that every one of his 29 hiking trips is innovative.
If a man doesn't bring him an invention, he calls on a woman to bring a recipe --
"Chemistry," he said.
He interviewed every centenarian he met, recorded the secrets of their longevity, and removed the doubts that they might not be as old as they claim.
He took a spoon and a small plastic bag to dig the soil.
Microbial memory ]-
For later analysis and to shoot anything that caught his attention, such as interesting paint work.
Gupta excitedly ran to a field ploughed through the barbed wire.
He heard that tractor owners in the area were filling their tires with water to make them heavier when digging hard soil.
He found Ghanshayam Yadav who had the idea in 2004.
Farmers are in trouble when plowed, increasingly intensive areas and tractor companies at Rs 1000 billion ($180) at the beginning, 80 kg (175-
Weight, says Yadav.
Instead, he injected 200 (440 pounds) of water into the tire for 200 rupees ($4.
Cheaper, better, more durable and more efficient.
"This is an amazing experiment," Gupta said . "
He gave Yadav a shawl.
Gupta's most successful findings include more widely adopted varieties of rice, wheat and other crops.
He has obtained permission for pest control mix, pet medicine and psoriasis cream and is looking for partners to sell crop growth promoters, drugs for treating animal diarrhea and natural mosquito repellent.
His team helped.
Muruganantham sells hundreds of his machines to make cheap sanitary napkins from wood fiber.
He is proud of his most successful discovery, Mansukhbhai Prajapati, a once-struggling Potter who divides an evaporated and cooled clay refrigerator into one that employs 30 people
Before Gupta started working as a bank credit officer for farmers in Bangladesh in the 1980 s, he was surprised by the creativity of the poor.
When he returned to India, he was committed to developing this creativity and ensuring that the poor innovators were properly compensated.
He established the bee network in 1980 century, linked people to ideas, lobbied the government to create the National Innovation Foundation, and established a network of relevant organizations to encourage inventors.
He soon began to find inventors and spread ideas in rural India.
Hari Singh, an 85-year-old farmer, said: "We never really thought about innovation until he came . " Gupta put forward the idea of collecting rain water and making natural pesticides with local leaves that animals avoid.
His son, Kunwar, said he was inspired to develop his own experiment.
Gupta dreams that his ideas will expand beyond India to spread knowledge in unknown corners of the world.
Now, on his way to the next village, he skips a ditch on the dry lake bed.
"There's a lot to see," he said . "
"You need a few lives.
"Website related to innovation in India: Gupta speaks on Twitter for the non-profit TED organization: Ravi Nessmantwitter.