Hell yeah! We got Pranav Mistry in IIT-B for an interactive session. It was pleasant on the eyes to witness a man of that formidable skills and vision. He started by saying how he was standing in a line outside of the Convocation Hall 10 years ago to listen to one of the lecture series of TechFest and now he is on that part of the Convo. He is currently the head of Think Tank Team and Director of Research of Samsung.
He talked about his approach for the various products he has designed. He then displayed one of them to us for real. He took out his android phone, opened his YouTube app and searched for TechFest, opened the video and did some gesture on the screen with his hand and put the device away. Now, he took his android tablet and made another similar gesture on this device and the same YouTube video started to play here. We were all amazed. He joked that his fingers were like his pen-drive and that he transferred the link and similar sorts. Later, he revealed that it was actually the mixed effort of camera and cloud storage. Camera detects face and as per the gesture, it sends the YouTube link to the person's cloud storage and later retrieves it back.
He told about his other achievements, his IIT-B days and how he spent a good time with A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the then President of India, and how he managed to develop stuff right from scratch. It was all amazing to hear to him out. Thank You TechFest.
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