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Father invents special chair for autistics

Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2015-12-09 09:00

The ‘Sensory Lounger’ is made from a long armchair with two airbags which are constantly being pumped with air, in order to envelop the child inside them. This should provide children with the sensation of being squeezed tightly or being given a hug. “At ...
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Intuitive Pill bottle

Solution Shared by Marie Esmenio on 2014-10-28 18:41

The ClearRx system Adler designed for Target includes bottles for pills and liquids and a measuring syringe. So the new bottle created by Adler should have all the following contents: The bottle should have easy I.D.; The name of the drug is printed on ...
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Engineer develops bionic robotic arm for himself

Solution Shared by Merle Schlottmann on 2017-04-10 14:17

Maksim Lyashko decided to build a bionic artificial arm, after he lost his right arm in a mine in 2013. He calls his project "MaxBionic" and started working on the prosthesis immediately when he left the hospital, as he found out that existing ...
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Aids for limited hand function

Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2016-07-04 15:33

The solution consists of a handling system, a daily living aid for people with limited dexterity in their hands, fingers and wrists. After realizing this need, the inventor did some research, and wasn’t able to find an automatic gripping and grasping ...
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Paddleboard for wheelchair users

Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2016-01-11 10:15

'The way the board is designed, it's instant Independence”, Watt explained Today. Since he has the Onit Ability Board, Webb has gone on to compete in surfing and paddleboarding competitions, which he wasn’t able to do in 30 years. “Onit Ability ...
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Deaf man develops technology to enable communication

Solution Shared by Ana Duarte on 2016-11-18 16:29

Among his inventions, he has a system to people improve the effectiveness of lip-reading, a method that enables deaf people to converse on the telefone, an Internet-based system for capturing real-time transcripts of phone conferences, and electronic ...
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Man creates IsoFlow™- infusion catheter to fight against cancer

Solution Shared by Marie Esmenio on 2014-10-20 17:45

IsoFlow™ infusion catheter is a dual balloon catheter designed to isolate a specific treatment region from blood flow. This catheter is a long very thin teal colored tube that is attached to three plungers. When inserted into a blood vessel the plungers ...
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Man with cystic fibrosis invents lung therapy device

Solution Shared by Katie Patient on 2017-07-18 10:57

When Marten was two months old, he was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis and spent a large portion of his life trying different treatments and methods of therapy. However, after years of testing different products on the market, he realized the best ...
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Nightscout – an open source, do-it-yourself continuous glucose monitor in the Cloud

Solution Shared by Patricia Pereira on 2015-02-03 17:40

John Costik, a software and systems engineer, whose son, Evan, was diagnosed with Type I diabetes in 2012, felt that the tools he and his wife were given to care for their son were “inadequate for such a data-heavy disease.” They realized that if they ...
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Use of glue and Velcro systems to prevent fractures

Solution Shared by Maria do Céu Ramalhete on 2014-05-07 18:49

Some of the challenges we had to deal with was the clothes. As my daughter was spontaneous fractures, clothing could not contain buttons or springs. Instead only systems that were adapted necklace as velcros for example, not to hurt. https://www...
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