Tag: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Business World

Berger Paints Joins hands with IIT Guwahati to fight the Covid-19 Pandemic

Oct 16, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #berger paints, #IIT Guwahati, #Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, #Mr. Abhijit Roy, #Multi-Surface Protector

As the nation prepares to return to normalcy, India’s leading paints company Berger Paints today announced the launch of BreatheEasy Safe 24, Multi-Surface Protector, which protects surfaces from germs, bacteria and Covid like viruses for 24 hours. It’s an alcohol-free, environment-friendly product designed on the Nano Silver Technology.

As the Covid Pandemic hit the country, the Government wanted the research institutes and corporates to bring our innovative solutions to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. India has over the course of the past few months led the way in innovating products and BreatheEasy Safe 24 is a revolutionary step in the same journey.

Elated on the occasion of the launch, Mr. Abhijit Roy, MD & CEO Berger Paints explained – “Berger Paints has always been a front runner in innovating customer-centric products. Safe 24 is another testament to our core philosophy of innovation. With economic activities gradually picking up, there was an evolving demand for a product that can protect for a longer duration.

It was a pleasure to bring the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati’s ( IIT-G) technology to the Indian consumer as it catered to a big need gap. We are sure that Safe 24 will be of great assistance to the people and Government in these trying times.”

The project was developed by a group of scientists at IIT Guwahati which was led by Prof. Biman B. Mandal. Speaking on the occasion, Prof. Mandal added “Safe 24 is different from normal alcohol-based sanitizer as it stays active for an extended period of hours on the application surface.

It forms a protective nano-silver coating which fights off bacteria and virus for a longer duration as validated by standard protocols. IIT Guwahati has been instrumental in designing several projects in helping society and the nation fight Covid. We feel that this product would make our everyday lives safer in these trying time and beyond.”

Berger Paints, during the pandemic, has launched several hygiene products to suit the need of an Indian customer. Safe 24 is another such product which solves the conundrum of extended protection from bacteria and virus. As more and more people are stepping out of their homes, personal hygiene becomes pivotal in arresting the spread of coronavirus until a vaccine is found.

Education

Digital Jalebi created 3D Avatars of the students to receive Awards at IIT-Guwahati 22nd Convocation

Sep 25, 2020 by Gouri Achary 0 Comments #Digital Jalebi, #Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, #Mr. Nikhil Joshi

28th September 2020, INDIA: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati organized a unique virtual reality mode convocation where avatars of students collected their degrees and medals from the director’s avatar. Around, 1,803 students including 687 BTech and 637 MTech students’ avatars received their degrees. The concept was ideated and implemented by Digital Jalebi, a leading experiential design studio in the country.

IIT Guwahati came up with this innovative idea of doing this out of the ordinary convocation keeping the present pandemic situation in mind. Digital Jalebi not only created students’ virtual avatars, for them to attend their big day from the comfort of their homes but also created a photo-booth with an option of different backgrounds, for students to take pictures at some selected locations on the campus.

Excited about the association, Mr Nikhil Joshi, Co-founder of Digital Jalebi said, “We are extremely proud and honoured that we got the opportunity to be associated with such a prestigious event. Convocations are one of the most important events of a student’s life; we did our best to create the occurrence memorable for them”.

Sharing his views on the association, one of the spokespersons of Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati said, “We hired Digital Jalebi to provide a solution to us during this unforeseen situations and they satisfactorily created and delivered 3D avatars for Convocation of IIT-Guwahati 2020.”

Digital Jalebi has been in the experiential business for eight years now, and have been doing some exceptional work in the field of virtual reality.