The gloves, which can be used for phone calls or face–to-face conversations, combine sensors on the fingers with a controller that analyzes hand motions in the air, compares them to a library of sign language, and then generates the verbal equivalent of the sign through a smartphone. They use flex sensors, gyroscopes, touch sensors, and accelerometers and can be adjusted to any form of sign language. The goal of the gloves is to allow the estimated 70 million people who use sign language to communicate with people who don’t.

The first version was released in 2010, and the app has been updated several times since then. Nabeela noticed a positive change in Salman since he started using the app.
Nabeela wanted to create an application that would speak for him and could be customized easily. At the same time, he had started showing an interest in using his iPod.

Made of wood and without impact-absorbing systems, SACH does not have a fully ergonomic design and it is not very comfortable.
People with sufficient financial resources can buy a prosthetic limb made of carbon fiber, with good functionality and ergonomics, imported from Germany, United States or Iceland. This solution carries a cost of 1,300€, which departs it from the majority of people affected by amputation in the region where he lives.

The initial idea was to develop a pen that would release electrical charges so that the tip leaned on paper, giving the person a sense of "shaking" caused by the disease. During the tests, however, the group realized that the stimulus would be beneficial just for patients who have Parkinson's, as they help to relax the muscles that tend to contract due to illness. Thus it was created the Arc pen, the first pen developed to ensure a legible handwriting and a muscle relaxation those patients.

Layla needs to wear an eye pad every day because she was born with a cataract that clouds the vision of the right eye. So every day her father applies the designed patch under the daughter’s eye, which she must use for two hours to prevent eye diseases that develop in childhood.

According to the father, this is an uncomfortable situation for Layla, who gets angry when the patch is put in the eye, thus Gfgrubb strives to make the idea less boring, applying fun designs, such as characters of the game Mario Bros, hearts and other elements that arise from your imagination.

He is in the same grade as any child of his age. He liked to see his colleagues in Physical Education, but Felipe missed to play football with his friends, an unsolved problem for most of us. But Felipe’s father, Alexandro, a creative and passionate father by the son, never thought that way. Thus, he designed a special boot, where father and son are a single player.

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Sehbehinderte Menschen können enorme Schwierigkeiten mit der Bewältigung alltäglicher Dinge haben und werden daher oft vollständig abhängig von der Hilfe Anderer.
Die Welt ist entworfen für Sehende, und Sehbehinderte funktionieren schlecht in ihr. Daher wird viel daran getan, ihnen das Leben zu erleichtern, aber es muß noch viel passieren.

Als Pavel Kurbatsky gefragt wurde, warum er anfing, Hilfsmittel für Menschen mit Behinderungen zu entwerfen, zuckte er anfangs mit den Schultern.

By 19, he’d won junior national races and competed at the junior world championships three times. That year marked two major milestones for Freeman, now 33: He was invited by the U.S. Ski Team to train full-time in Park City, Utah. And he was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. But Freeman’s dreams didn’t fall apart, although he was supposed to be at the top of his game, training for the biggest sporting event in the world. He was forced to learn blood glucose management—at 7,000 feet and while maintaining a rigorous training schedule.

From superman to Mario Kart, Caleb has won incredible fantasies and today he and his mother inspire various other mothers and children in wheelchair to do the same, through the blog Wheelchair Costumes.

“I know they look elaborate but, honestly, my only tools are a hot glue gun and some cardboard. Anyone can do it and many do. I see more and more wheelchair costumes every single year", the mother explained.

More info: http://wheelchaircostumes.blogspot.pt/

After a surgery on the knee, Raphael began, two years ago, to learn to surf. And to everyone's surprise, it has been the sport that more has helped to improve coordination, balance and muscle strength. When he started, his expression was apathetic, his shoulders slumped, his head down and he had no strength to lift his head and did not walk, but after only eight months surfing and doing other therapies, everything changed and Raphael began to walk.

When Kenneth Shinozuka was six years old, a family friend fell down in the bathroom. The friend was ok - but the incident inspired him to design a motion detection system that could be embedded in bathroom tiles. He never actually made one in real life, but he was hooked on both the promise of invention and the potential of technology.

However, his father wanted to walk again and for this he knew that he needed to be able to stand up. At the time, helped by his three brothers, who were locksmiths, a structure with pulleys was improvised in the way that Leandro could stay a few moments out of the chair. Afterwards, he did intensive physiotherapy sessions and a gradual recovery of movement was achieved, which now allows Leandro to travel around the city with the help of a walker. For this reason, Walef went to Biomedical engineering and started to develop the chair’s project at 2012.

Carlos tem formação em Análise de Sistemas e, inicialmente, fez uma aplicação simples que permitiu que a sua filha deixasse de responder apenas "sim" e "não" às suas perguntas. Depois, ele reuniu uma equipa de colaboradores formados por profissionais de tecnologia, fonoaudiólogos e terapeutas ocupacionais, tendo desenvolvido o primeiro software Português em comunicação alternativa adaptada para tablets e smartphones.

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 collected the right information and analyzed it correctly, they could do a lot more for him and keep him healthier

Junto com o ciclismo, levantamento de pesos e trabalhar com um treinador, Hoffapuir sofreu quatro rondas de quimioterapia, uma mastectomia e nove meses de tratamento.
A sua determinação trouxe ao de cima o seu lado criativo também, e Jamie começou a trabalhar o que pode ser a camisa de treino perfeita para todas as mulheres - e não apenas para quem foi diagnosticado com cancro da mama. Esta invenção chama-se "Pauir Athletic Top".

ManageBGL is for people with both Type 1 (Insulindependent, IDDM) and Type 2 diabetes and their carers, and predicts dangerous low blood sugars up to 8 hours ahead. The person enters blood sugar and carbohydrates, and ManageBGL calculates the insulin dose, and then predicts the complex curve the blood sugar will follow.

More info in http://www.managebgl.com/

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After an encounter with a 7-year-old girl at a science fair whose prosthetic arm cost $80,000 (and would need to be replaced when she outgrew it), LaChappelle was inspired to turn his prototype into a practical and affordable one.

Shubham then did some online research and was shocked to learn that Braille printers cost at least $2,000. He also learned more about Braille, the tactile writing system used by the visually impaired. He said "When I found out the cost of a Braille printer, I was shocked. I just wanted to help the visually impaired. I had a Lego Robotics kit, so I asked, 'Why not just try that?'"
Built out of Lego’s Mindstorms EV3 blocks and little pieces from Home Depot (Braigo stands for Braille and Lego), Braigo Lab's printer turned out to function quite well.

Cousins had been giving a presentation to doctors about the future of 3D-printing in the NHS when he collapsed and was taken to hospital. It emerged he had appendicitis and doctors removed his appendix that night to relieve the pain. However, scans on his kidney also revealed he had kidney stones that needed to be operated on later.