Bead Jewellery

Bead Jewellery in Chota Udepur
The ladies, housewives in Chhota Udaipur are the ones who make bead jewellery. They source the beads from Ahmadabad and Baroda, since these are the 2 places easily accessible to them. They buy the beads in bulk as it is cheaper that way. All the jewellery they make is very colourful. All the ladies have a different colour sense and all their jewellery have different designs.

Silver Jewellery of Chota Udepur

Silver Jewellery
All the Adivasi’s of Chota Udepur wear silver jewellery. Their jewellery is very heavy. A married woman wears jewellery that amounts to more than 1 kg on her body. Her necklace alone accounts to around 500-750 grams. Then is the kada(hand bangle), the anklet and her earrings. Earrings are relatively smaller than all the other pieces of jewellery. The necklace is the heaviest, followed by the kada and the then the anklet.

Pranav Mistry: Sixth Sense Technology

Pranav Mistry and his Sixth Sense Technology

Pranav Mistry is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT's Media Lab. Before his studies at MIT, he worked with Microsoft as a UX researcher; he's a graduate of IIT. Mistry is passionate about integrating the digital informational experience with our real-world interactions.

Some previous projects from Mistry's work at MIT includes intelligent sticky notes, Quickies, that can be searched and can send reminders; a pen that draws in 3D; and TaPuMa, a tangible public map that can act as Google of physical world. His research interests also include Gestural and Tangible Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, AI, Machine Vision, Collective Intelligence and Robotics.

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.

Link:
http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html