A late-breaking surprise just came out of the Google camp with the
revelation that it's going to start making smart contact lenses. As in
contact lenses with integrated sensors and circuitry. Yep, it's that
time in the future. But it might not be what you're hoping for. It
isn't the next generation of heads-up display (a Google Glass people
would willingly wear in public), rather, it's for sensing.
Many people with diabetes have to vigilantly monitor their blood-
glucose levels or they risk major problems like passing out, and in
extreme cases, coma or even death. Despite that, pricking your finger a
million times a day isn't anybody's picture of a good time, and this
often results in people checking their glucose levels less often than
they should, which is obviously dangerous because virtually anything
(eating, exercise, sweating) can cause a sudden spike or dip.
So, over the years, science has been investigating different ways to
monitor glucose besides blood, and one of the most promising- looking
targets is tears. The problem is that tears aren't exactly easy to
collect, either. Would you rather prick your finger or jab a Q-Tip into
your eyeball? "Gee, I dunno, couldn't I just drop something heavy on my
toe, instead?" So, Google X, the team that has brought us self- driving
cars, Glass, and other "moonshot" projects, came up with the idea of a
contact lens with embedded "chips and sensors so small they look like
bits of glitter, and an antenna thinner than a human hair." Their
words. It sounds crazy, but could it work?
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10 Top Indian CEOs - Azim H Premji
Azim Hashim Premji, the chairman of
Wipro Technologies, is one of the richest Indians. He is an icon among Indian
businessmen, especially in the software industry. Born on July 24, 1945, Premji
was studying Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, USA when due to the
sudden demise of his father; he was called upon to handle the family business
at the age of 21.
Wipro was then Western Indian
Vegetable Products, a small cooking oil company. Premji diversified into bakery
fats, ethnic ingredient based toiletries, hair care soaps, baby toiletries,
lighting products and hydraulic cylinders. And then shifted focus from soaps to
software.
He transformed Wipro into one of
India's most successful IT companies. Under Azim Premji's stewardship, Wipro
has grown from a fledgling Rs 70 million oil company into an IT giant with a
turnover of $2.4 billion and an employee strength of 57,000.
Azim Premji has regularly featured in the Forbes' list of the world's richest people. He was also rated among the world's 100 most influential people by the Time magazine. In 2005, the Indian government honoured him with Padma Bhushan, one of the nation's highest civilian awards.
10 Top Indian CEOs - Nandan Nilekani
Nandan Nilekani is the CEO and
managing director of Infosys Technologies. He, along with N R Narayana Murthy
and five others, co-founded India's IT jewel, Infosys. Born in Bangalore to
Durga and Mohan Rao Nilekani, he graduated from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Bombay.
After graduation, he met Narayana
Murthy, who then led Patni Computer Systems's software group, seeking a job.
Murthy hired the young engineer. That was the beginning of a relationship that
was to create Indian corporate history.
Three years later, seven enthusiasts
(including Nandan) decided to start their own outfit (Infosys Technologies Ltd)
with Murthy in the lead. Their decision rewrote the domestic software industry
of India.
He became the chief executive
officer of Infosys in March 2002. He now leads the company with Narayana Murthy
having retired in August 2006. He is married to Rohini, an English-language
novelist, and they have two children: daughter Janhavi and son Nihar. He speaks
Konkani at home.
In 2006, he was awarded the Padma
Bhushan by the Government of India. He is regarded by Time magazine as one of
the 100 most influential people in the world in its issue of May 2006.
10 Top Indian CEOs - Mukesh D Ambani
Mukesh Ambani, the chairman and
managing director of India's largest private sector enterprise -- Reliance
Industries Limited -- was born on April 19, 1957.
His father, the legendary Dhirubhai
Ambani, was then a small businessman who later on rose to become one of the
legends of Indian industry.
Mukesh joined Reliance Industries in
1981 and was the brain behind Reliance's backward integration from textiles
into polyester fibres and into petrochemicals. During the process of backward
integration, Mukesh Ambani led the creation of 51 new, world-class
manufacturing facilities involving diverse technologies that raised Reliance's
manufacturing capacities manifold.
The world's largest grassroots
petroleum refinery at Jamnagar is his brainchild. He was also the in-charge of
Dhirubhai's dream project Reliance Infocomm. But after the split in the
Reliance Empire, Reliance Infocomm went to his brother Anil.
Mukesh Ambani is now planning to
enter retail sector in a big way and will launch a chain of 'Reliance Fresh'
retail stores. He also entered into an agreement with the Haryana government to
establish a Special Economic Zone with an investment running into billions of
rupees.
He has a bachelor's degree in Chemical
Engineering from University of Bombay and a master's in Business Administration
from Stanford University, USA.
10 Top Indian CEOs - Ratan Tata
Ratan Naval Tata, a bachelor, is the
chairman of the Tata Group, India's most respected conglomerate. He was born
into a Parsi family in Mumbai (then called Bombay) to Soonoo and Naval Hormusji
Tata on December 28, 1937.
He did a short stint with Jones and
Emmons in Los Angeles, California, before returning to India in 1962. He had
earlier turned down an IBM job offer. He joined the family business in 1962 and
worked with many of his group's companies. He took over as group chairman from
the legendary J R D Tata in 1991.
Since then, he has been instrumental
in boosting the fortunes of the Tata Group, which has amongst the largest
market capitalisations in the Indian stock markets.
Tata Motors developed the Tata
Indica in 1998. This was the first 'entirely Indian' passenger car. Ratan
Tata's dream now is to manufacture a car costing just Rs 100,000. Ratan Tata
holds a degree in Architecture and Structural Engineering from Cornell
University. He has also done the Advanced Management Program from Harvard
Business School in 1974-1975.
Ratan Tata was honoured with one of
India's highest civilian awards, the Padma Bhushan, on January 26, 2000.
10 Top Indian CEOs - Lakshmi N Mittal
Steel tycoon Lakshmi Niwas Mittal is
the richest Indian in the world, with an estimated wealth of $25 billion. He
resides in London, has his company registered in the Netherlands, but still
holds an Indian passport. Although Mittal Steel was already the world's biggest
steel company, his king-sized ambitions were evident when he took over steel
giant Arcelor to create a new steel behemoth -- Arcelor-Mittal.
L N Mittal left India in the
mid-1970s to start his career. He was sent to Indonesia by his father to shut
down the family's ailing steel plant and sell the land. Instead, young Mittal
saw an opportunity and turned the plant around.
To prove that this was no fluke,
Mittal acquired a 1.3 million tonne, Iscot Steel plant in Trinidad &
Tobago, which was losing $100,000 a day. One year of Mittal-style management
and it was making profits, the LN Mittal legend was born. That move helped him
get into America.
The Mexican government seeing the
success that Mittal made of Iscot, asked him to take over their ailing steel
plants in 1992. But it was not all that smooth. In 1994 Mittal had differences
with his brothers and father, and went on to form his own company. The
following year Mittal entered the European market, acquiring the 5 million
tonne Kazakh steel plant, Karmet. Meanwhile, Mittal had listed Ispat
International on the New York and Amsterdam Stock Exchanges in 1997. Eight
years later Mittal Steel became the world's largest steel maker when he took
over the US's largest steel producer -- the International Steel Group. He then
consolidated all his steel holdings into Mittal Steel.
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