Dhairya Dand

Dhairya Dand FRSA is an award-winning inventor and artist who runs ODD Industries - a futurist factory and lab in NYC. Previously an inventor at MIT, Amazon's moonshot lab, University of Tokyo, scientific advisor to XPRIZE Foundation and an artist at the NEW Museum in NYC, CUTE Center in Singapore and in Phnom Penh.

His work investigates the human body as a medium for computation, new materials as a tool to embody interactions and design as a vehicle for mindfulness. He has created shoes that tickle, a 2.5D elastic displays, synthetic muscles, bacteria based computers, ice-cubes that know how much you drink, toys made from electronic waste materials, among other useless/useful inventions.

He was part of the Forbes ’30 under 30’ list twice, a finalist for the Smithsonian’s National Design Award, was named as the first WIRED Innovation fellow ‘innovators who will change our world’ and an INK Fellow. His art has been exhibited at the V&A, Tokyo Design Week, CHI Paris, TEI Barcelona among others. He has also given several talks at TEDx and other venues.