Ashwin Hegde

Ashwin Hegde is a robotics engineer who reviews gadgets like someone who has taken them apart. His channel, Digital Sphere, was named in Forbes India's Digital Stars 2024 list in the tech category, with one of the higher engagement rates on it — a number that says more about how the videos are made than how many people see them.

The format is storytelling first. A projector at fifty-six thousand rupees is not introduced with a spec sheet but with the question of whether anyone should spend that. A missed LPG e-KYC deadline gets explained calmly, start to finish, because that is the video people are actually searching for. Galaxy AI is tested against other phones rather than described. Every piece ends where a review should end: with a verdict, and a reason for it.

He has said his purpose is to keep people from wasting money, and the audience treats him that way — comments are full of people asking what to buy before they buy it. He works in Hindi, which puts him in front of the viewers most likely to be making a considered, first-time purchase, and he has worked with brands including Lava, Cashify, OneCard and boAt.

The reach is about 426,000 across Instagram and YouTube, an audience that watches to the end and expects the honest answer. Brands get a review that is taken seriously precisely because the creator is known to refuse the easy one.