Dhairya is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab. His work is inspired by mythologies, super humans and the world around him. Most of his work addresses problems and opportunities he sees around him; more often than not, its also a result of excessive day dreaming and taking reality with a pinch of salt.
Presently, he is working on the idea of programming intuition and augmenting humans with new skills and capabilities.
In his previous life, he made some ice-cubes that know how much you’re drinking; was an open-source toy designer – used to make educational toys from eWaste; emotional softwares, plants and robots; built new expressive interfaces for autistic kids; had an mGovernance startup in rural India; hack electronics to repurpose them.
