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Amazing Futuristic Innovations of Designer Devina Kothari

Industrial Design Innovation Specialist – Devina Kothari who believes in ‘design for cause’ and making it affordable and easily accessible to the users.  

Recognizing that no design journey is without hurdles, she believes in marching ahead till the Holy Grail is achieved while adhering to “do not quit till you achieve what you believe in”.  

She is an Industrial Designer from the Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B), India.  

With more than a decade in the field of design, she has substantiated her skill-set to generate multi and cross-functional design details, experiences, and features, making them unique.     

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Designer Devina Kothari holds Red Dot Award  

Her experience ranges across various sectors from Agriculture, Architecture, Automotive, Consumer Goods, and Interior Design to Healthcare!  

Her innovative designs include; the closed-loop insulin delivery system for people who are suffering from Diabetes, Mizu Ha (a B2B platform for farmers along with smart irrigation clubbed with IoT), and the design for Child healthcare and Immunisation Records, Urja (Cook Stove) and many more.   

Her objective is to make a significant impact on several Business Units, through Design Innovations, in an environment where she can contribute to the professional and personal success of the team and herself.  

Recently she has been recognized with many awards for her Innovative design:

  • The Red Dot Award, 2014 for the Insulin Delivery System
  • The Global Ignite Challenge, sponsored by Sanofi, for Innovative Insulin Delivery System
  • The ‘I Design Award’ 2014-2015 for Cornea Care (Ophthalmic Enucleation Kit) and Urja (Cook Stove)
  • Runners-Up, Illunova -2013 (WIDD) for designing the future of a Communication Device
  • She also represented India as a Global Scholar at Global Young Leaders Conference (GYLC), held in Washington and New York City

Let’s talk about some of her Innovations that have been appreciated by the world.

Insulin Delivery System  

Inspiration for developing this device came from a mosquito bite, Devina observed that when a mosquito bites, we don’t realise the pain.   

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  Her uncle, a diabetic, needed daily insulin injections. And after watching the painful process of taking an injection every day, Devina decided that she wanted to do something to ease the pain.   

She invented this device, which integrates insulin delivery with a patient’s lifestyle by amalgamating the existing technology advancement with fashion.  

It’s a closed-loop system that continuously automatically monitors blood glucose levels and diffuses the requisite amount of insulin as per the current need of the body through a pain-free micro-needle array.  

Cornea Care

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It is an Ophthalmic Enucleation Kit that helps to preserve the usability of the corneas up to 48 hours post-extraction. This facilitates procuring corneas from rural areas as well, which in turn will help to treat curable blindness at the fastest rate.  

Urja (Cook Stove)

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  A cook stove that burns on ethanol (bio-fuel) and generates electricity while cooking, using thermopiles.  

Omni

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  A useful communication device that connects or facilitates interaction between the user to its environment. 

Grow Buckets

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Images credit: Devina Kothari  

Two Buckets that aid in Hydroponics, one works as Substrate Bucket and other Drainage Bucket.   

Currently, Devina is working on ‘Jaya’. Named after her grandmother, it is a software-cum-mobile application that Anganwadi will get to use. It will help them record vaccination details right from the birth of the child till the child is 18 years old.  

“The current cards given to patients either get lost or are damaged. So, manual entry cannot be completely relied on. This software-cum-mobile application will make the process error-free,” she says, as reported by Femina.   

To know about her innovative designs, visit to www.devinakothari.in.

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