Bloomberg Businessweek (North America)
Utkarsh Tandon
In the fifth grade, I was surfing Youtube and saw a video of Muhammad Ali during the torch relay at the 1996 Olympics. His hands were shaking, so I looked online and realized he had Parkinson’s. It made me want to build something to help people with the disease. It took a few years—i’m currently 16. I designed a “smart ring” that uses Bluetooth and an IOS app to collect data on things like what time of day the tremors are more severe. The data go into a report doctors can use to better treat their patients. I work at a desk in the garage. I spend a few hours there every night after wrapping up my homework, soldering the rings for my Kickstarter campaign. I’m shipping them to backers soon, 25 of them. Most are Parkinson’s patients.