Tunir Sahoo from Kolkata has won the James Dyson Award in India for JivaScope. This small AI device lets people check their heart and lung health easily without a doctor or internet.
Kolkata, 11 Sep 2025
Tunir Sahoo from Kolkata has won the James Dyson Award 2025 in India for JivaScope. This small AI device lets people check their heart and lung health easily without a doctor or internet.
How JivaScope Works
JivaScope is a pocket-sized tool that uses AI to find heart and lung problems quickly. It works without needing a doctor, internet, or power. This makes it very useful in villages where doctors are few. Tunir got the idea after seeing patients in Bihar wait days for simple chest checks. He wanted to make a cheap tool anyone could use.
Award Details and Other Winners
Tunir will get about 6 lakh rupees as prize money. He plans to use this for tests and patents to make JivaScope ready for real use. Two other inventions also got prizes. OncoALERT, a paper device to check for mouth cancer at home, came second. Thirdeye, an AI tool to help blind people, came third. Sir James Dyson will pick the final winners from all countries. Kolkata-based Tunir Sahoo has emerged as India's national winner of the James Dyson Award 2025 for his unique invention, JivaScope. A pocket-sized and AI-powered device, JivaScope enables anyone to self-screen heart and lung diseases in minutes, bringing clinical-grade diagnostics to rural and low-resource settings. The device requires no doctor, internet, or electricity, a press statement informed. For his invention, Tunir will receive prize money…
Winning the James Dyson Award feels truly humbling, as past winners have been a source of immense motivation for me.
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Updated 11 Sep 2025, 13:51 IST; source: link
