Sindhoora Raja: Vibrotactile fingertip device for Parkinson's tremor
Vibrotactile fingertip device for Parkinson's tremor.
Sindhoora focused on elderly patients in rural India who cannot reach a neurologist. Her device delivers patterned vibrations to the fingertips to stimulate sensory-motor pathways and reduce tremor and "freezing of gait", and she has built screening tools, a spiral-drawing test and a voice test, using machine learning. She received the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar in December 2024 while in Class 11.
IP note
Patent reported filed in Class 9 and published; number not located — InPASS check.
Recognition
PM Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2024.
What this means for a student inventor in India
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- Arsh Shah Dilbagi — TALK
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