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Young Indian scientist won World Health Summit Startup award in Berlin

Berlin, Nov 4 (UNI) Roopam Sharma, a 23-year old Indian scientist, won the World Health Summit Startup award, 2018 for his invention, Manovue – the world’s first intelligent personal assisting system for the visually impaired. Sharma was awarded at an annual event of the health summit in Berlin.
The glove Manovue, developed by the company Eyeluminati, is the wold's first intelligent personal assistant for the visually impaired.It combines vision intelligence and the internet of things and helps users to read any printed text without knowing the braille language.By providing haptic feedback,the glove also helps people with vision impairments to move around freely outside well known environments.
Roopam Sharma, Scientist and innovator created Social impact through disruptive technological inventions and solves perennial problems. He is the youngest person ever to be recognised as an innovator under 35 by the MIT Tech Review for the year 2016 and was awarded 2016's Gifted Citizen Prize an international prize that honours the best social entrepreneur with an ability to benefit 10 million people over the next six years .
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