Love the Indian Bread – Roti, but fed up with the hassles of making it. 800 million people in India eat over 2.3 billion rotis a day. Chapati or roti is a staple in Indian diet. Yet it can take over 30 minutes to prepare a simple meal of roti. Repeating this at least three times every day is a cumbersome process. What if you could, make rotis, with a push of a button. Yes, Now you have help at hand – Rotimatic
An invention of an 25 year old girl from India , Pranoti Nagarkar Israni, “Rotimatic”, is all set to be the rice cooker for the roti-eating population.
Rotimatic
As you see above, the appliance, is about the size of a mini-microwave oven, does the measuring, mixing, kneading, making, and baking of rotis, with users only required to refill the wheat and water compartments after a few days. Just the flick of the button and the chapati is ready. What you gotta do is add water and flour to the machine and leave this innovative roti maker to do its job. Compact, elegant and user-friendly, the roti maker sits on your kitchen top and prepares chapati for your family in just a flash of a second. The smart ingenious attributes of this cute little buddy won it the top position in the Singapore 2009 Business Plan Competition.
Rotimatic is a product of Zimplistic Pte Ltd., based out of singapore. Zimplistic recently won the prestigious StartUp@Singapore 2009 grand champion trophy, which comes with $28,000 in prize money and one free year of office space. Prior to this, Zimplistic was awarded the YES! Spring Singapore grant for young entrepreneurs valued at $35,000. Pranoti Israni, the founder of Zimplistic aims to partner or license with a consumer appliance brand to bring Rotimatic to market in 2010.
Pranoti Nagarkar Israni is no stranger to product design. Only in her 20s, she left her job at a leading electronic manufacturer to start-up on her own. She graduated from NUS and majored in mechanical engineering from Singapore who launched her own startup in June 2008 when she came up with her first invention, the “Rotimatic”.
Hats off to you, for coming out with this one !!
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