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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当被问及为什么他开始为残疾人发明了这一工具时，Pavel Kurbatsky最初只是耸了耸肩。

“我看到盲人或聋人虽然身体条件我们一样，但他们很难走动，因为他们生活在一个为他们设计得很糟糕的环境中，”一位严肃、自律的青少年Kurbatsky在他的宿舍里接受采访时说。Kurbatsky来自鲍曼州立大学。 “我决定以某种方式帮助他们。”

实际上，在很多年前，这年轻的天才开始了探索，寻找使用技术来创造有益于有特殊需要的人群的东西的方法。在9岁的时候，Kurbatsky发明了一种特殊的温度计，可以让视障人士很容易地测量体温。而现在，18岁的他创造了一个特殊的“拐杖”和“说话的黑眼镜”。该棒具有三个不同位置的传感器；头部，腰部和脚部，后者对环境进行扫描，一旦使用者即将接近障碍物，手杖就会通过语音信息提醒他/她，并可通过耳机听到，因此使用者就可以避开这些障碍物。同时，该手杖还还安装了GPS系统，可以收集有关特定位置的信息以备将来参考。这对医院，办公室和公共交通等场所非常有用。

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.

虽然他还没有将自己的发明变成一个真正的产品，但他实现了自己的承诺，并证明了这一技术的潜力。

他的祖父是阿尔茨海默氏症患者，具有晚上徘徊的危险习惯。从那时起，肯尼斯.筱冢（ Kenneth Shinozuka）开始为他的祖父设计智能设备。筱冢（Shinozuka）15岁时，他终于想出了一种方法来保证他祖父的安全，并帮助照顾他祖父的阿姨。他发明了SafeWander，一种可穿戴式传感器，用于在患者下床时向看护者发出警报。

这个装置包括了带有无线电路的，大约四分之一英寸的柔性薄膜，它可以粘贴在任何一件衣服上，并通过蓝牙与智能手机应用程序（也是由筱冢设计的）连接，当他的祖父从床上起来时，装置就会发出声音，提醒他的阿姨。

更多信息：http://www.safewander.com/
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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.

He has a background in Systems Analysis and initially he made a simple mobile application that allows his daughter to answer only “yes” and “no” to his questions. Afterwards, he assembled a team of collaborators formed by technology professionals, speech therapists and occupational therapists and created the first Portuguese software in alternative communication adapted for tablets and smartphones.

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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

Along with cycling, lifting weights and working with a trainer, Hoffapuir underwent four rounds of chemotherapy, a mastectomy and nine months of treatment.
Her determination brought about her creative side too, and she crafted what may be the perfect workout shirt for all women - not just those who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. She calls it the 'Pauir Athletic Top .'
"it's the easiest thing to put on, you put it on and zip it up," Hoffpauir said. "It also has integrated pockets here in case someone needs to slip in a prosthetic."

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.