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Ruchit Nagar

Researcher

Sep 17, 2026

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5:57
Hilton, for the stay.
6:00
So in a way, we had to use the literature search as a proxy and try to reach out to NGOs on the ground to get some sense of what was happening.
6:09
But the real design thinking started once we were able to, we made a prototype initially.
6:15
So we took our idea of a portable, wearable medical record, and we then developed that idea into a prototype.
6:24
What was the prototype? The prototype was basically a wearable band that had an NFC chip inside.
6:32
And instead of using the NFC chip to scan into a building, that one kilobyte of space on the NFC chip could be used to store a vaccine record in a digital format.
6:43
And the interesting piece about this is that NFC technology, near field communication, doesn't require batteries or internet connectivity to work.

7 MINS LATER

13:25
And they're still working on vaccination, but also in the context of all the other things they have to do.

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