tejaswikasarla

Hi Prof. Raskar, I've been an attendee at ReDX this July at Hyderabad and subsequently joined the innovation center full-time. I have watched your TED talk on EyeNetra a long ago. There you've described Netra as a 1$ smartphone clip-on eye piece for testing which I thought was a revolutionary idea in low cost health care. But now, Netra is a 2999$ kit. Can you please explain why this huge difference in terms of cost happened? More importantly, why is Netra not a 1$ smartphone clip on anymore? Though it still is a low cost screening device especially for rural areas, what factors affected the price?

Thank you sir. Really good hear that. Below 1$ for test does truly bring out low cost health care monitoring. And once we get enough investors to set up units for testing, I believe this will revolutionize rural health care.