Pune-based computer prodigy Anup Tapadia, 24, has developed a multi-touch screen device called, the Multi-touch interactive table.
Famous as the youngest person in the world to be certified as a Microsoft (MS) professional at 14, Anup was also the youngest Origamist in the world at 7.
“The passion for the art helped me to understand dimensions and proportions and that is how I developed an interest in 3D animation and designing in computers,” Anup told DNA.
The interactive table developed by him was launched in a function in Mumbai recently. It is a next generation surface computing device, which allows you to view photos, share information, play games, perform presentations or do many more collaborative things over a coffee table. It can also identify the objects being kept on it like coffee and give you more information on it.
It can be used for business lobbies, in retail outlets for demonstration of products coupled with entertainment, museums, restaurants, banks, corporate offices, home appliances, as a hobby, in schools for information sharing and to demonstrate and strategise sport events and many more.
Anup, at 16, had launched his company TechnoKarma Labs with a vision to build innovative Indian products for the global market. His first product was a low-cost router and more efficient alternative to the way wireless networks were being deployed. It was the time when he was associated with the International Institute of Information Technology, Pune (I2IT) for research in high performance computing.
“After my std XII examination at Fergusson College, I was offered to join in as a fulltime MS student in networks and telecom at I2IT without completing my engineering degree,” he said.
“At 19, I received my first masters’ degree. As part of my thesis, I had worked on a low-level distributed memory management system for virtual machine clusters. Then I worked for one-year with Qualcomm at San Diego, USA. I developed two products in distributed mobile computing at Qualcomm, which were patented. After completing the master’s courses and some MBA courses, I decided that I would like to come back to India, and launch TouchMagix firm,” he said.
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