Abacus is a wonderful instrument. It is one of many counting devices invented to help count numbers. It was earlier a counting board. This counting board was a mere wooden device with a frame that holds rods and freely-sliding beads mounted on them. A traditional abacus is defined as a counting frame used by numerous civilizations throughout history. The earliest known documentation of this is a Chinese version, which dates all the way back to the 2nd century BC

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From the earlier counting device to Soroban and Zhuzuan, the Abacus has taken many improvements in its form. The evolution has taken long years. Although an ancient invention, many people continue to use the abacus today, as it has been observed that regular use of this instrument has many mental benefits including an increased development on the right and left side of the brain.

Indian inventor, Mr. N. Basheer Ahamed, Managing Director and CEO, Indian Abacus Private Limited. Spotted a few flaws in this traditional contraption. Although he thought that it was an effective tool and beneficial in many ways, he had a unique idea of tweaking this old invention by making it digital. Transforming an ancient gadget with highly contemporary updates makes it more modern and therefore much more relevant to today's generation.

A basic abacus consists of two rows of beads arranged in a variable number of columns. Once you become more familiar with the function of the abacus, you can assign different values to perform more complex numerical operations. Mr. Basheer Ahamed observed that the problem with this system is that because the beads are all one color, the children are not able to gain an adequate mental picture long enough to assign to the value of each number. The abacus beads would immediately slide back into place, thus erasing the visual pattern repeatedly.

In his digital version of an abacus, he has cleverly designed chunky hexagon shaped switches rather than beads which are arranged similarly to the ancient frame. Instead of sliding the beads up and down, the user has to flick a switch, which displays specific colors - either red or/and green. The student while operating Indian Abacus moves the Lower and the upper sliders to unhide and hide the color images which represent values. The lower sliders when moved towards the bar unhide and display Green color images and similarly the upper sliders when moved towards the bar unhide and display Red color images. Thus with the display of color images the memory registry & later visualization in Indian Abacus is many times better - stronger and faster - when compared to the generic Abacus. Since Visualization is the key factor for better visual memory, Indian Abacus is much superior to its predecessor. With this essential updated tweak, the designs on the board can be visible for as long as the user wants, and therefore the user starts to subconsciously associate different images to different values of numbers, making the process much more comfortable and increasing the creative development of the right side of the brain simultaneously.