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• The Association of Patients with Systemic Lupus was founded in January 1992. Intended

  Forum topic Shared by fanyand on 2014-03-25 17:31

  

  The Association of Patients with Systemic Lupus was founded in January 1992. It was intended to fill several flaws as the two founders felt sick. Patients with lupus were not informed about their disease adequately. Their families and friends also ignored ...

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• Wheelchair user co-develops a system to play with his sons

  Solution Shared by Sara Di Fabio on 2020-05-07 16:07

  

  Alex Rosenberg is on a wheelchair and has limited arm strength. He took part in the sixth Assistive Technologies Hackathon (ATHack) organised by the MIT, where, paired with some students, he co-developed a device to perform simple everyday tasks. " ...

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• Man invents kit to help tetraplegic man control house electronic systems by voice

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2019-08-14 10:11

  

  Juliano Oliveira Cravo, born in Brazil, in 1979, is a DJ who was a law degree and who built a system, in 2018, that allows the user to control electronic equipment with the voice. He created this technology for Sandro Francisco da Silva, a tetraplegic man ...

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• Father invents Speaks4me®- an electronic communication and voice output application device

  Solution Shared by Patricia Pereira on 2015-06-21 13:56

  

  Speaks4me allows the user to choose images in order to communicate needs or thoughts. And while it's a pretty simple system, it might make quite a difference in the life of someone who was previously unable to express himself in a manner that could ...

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• Woman invents way to help her retrieve mail without having to walk to the street

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2019-09-05 09:36

  

  "The last time I went, I tripped there and fell. If I picked my foot up that much further, I wouldn't have fallen and that's when I thought, ‘You better start looking for something’”, she recalled. So the woman had the idea of building a ...

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• Doctor finds cure to his own disease

  Solution Shared by JoanaSaraiva on 2019-09-20 11:21

  

  David Fajgenbaum was a medical student when he fell ill. After being wrongly diagnosed with lymphoma, the doctors finally diagnosed him with ‘Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman disease’, a rare, potentially fatal lymphoproliferative disease, which provokes ...

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• Inventor creates foot-operated door pedal to help contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic

  Solution Shared by Ana Ribeiro on 2020-06-16 10:30

  

  During the Covid-19 pandemic, engineer and inventor Michael Aiken developed the “Anti-covid-19 Door Opener” that allows people to open doors by using their feet. According to the project’s page on the Instructables website, the innovator states that “The ...

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• Paraplegic man creates three-wheeled electric wheelchair

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2019-07-08 10:03

  

  Christian designs different wheelchairs, to make users be able to perform sports. He founded his own company, Icon Wheelchairs. The Icon Explore, one of his models, is a motorised mix of motorbike, tricycle and wheelchair. The entrepreneur had the idea ...

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• ALS Patient builds electronic automation system for houses

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2017-04-04 11:12

  

  The PEAC system uses a wireless signal which allows its users to perform house tasks such as opening and closing doors, calling an elevator, and operating the TV and lights. They carry out these tasks with small movements of their eyes- or, for some ...

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• Disabled man develops autopilot wheelchair system

  Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2017-03-23 16:10

  

  It was hard for Valery to use the wheelchair indoors and avoid obstacles. So he started thinking about a solution. "If you use an electric wheelchair, then you understand how frustrating it can be to avoid obstacles, make constant adjustments and ...

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