NEW DELHI: A few students of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, are trying to "add colour" to the lives of the blind. The IIT-D's chapter of the National Service Scheme includes the sub-group, Social Innovation Cell, that has been over the past two-three years developing technology for "social good." The colour sensor for the blind, a low-cost bed for blood-donation and a host of accessible computer and mobile games preceded the "Hackathon for Social Good" the SIC is just concluded at IIT.
About 200 - mostly first year IIT students -...