Dani created this solution after seeing his family struggling while taking care of his mother-in-law, who has dementia.

"For the last 4 years our extended family has been caring for my mother-law who suffers from dementia. I witness every day the challenges my mother-in-law and the family face. On the one hand even the most basic things, such as knowing what day of the week or time of day, can't be taken for granted. On the other hand the reality of life and geography don't allow for everyone to have the level of communication and involvement they would like", he explained.

Erin wanted his son to be able to have some fun during treatments by using his iPod, but she was having trouble using the traditional solutions.

Rebecca suffers from Usher Syndrome, a rare disease that affects hearing, balance and vision.

The family tried to learn sign language and adjust their lives to Rebecca, who will be completely blind by the time she reaches her teenage years. They went to look for toys for kids with visual impairments, but there were no valid options for the girl's situation.

"When a child is born with normal sight, they're immersed in language and they have little toys with letters and words, so what we decided to do was to make Rebecca her own toy", Jacob explained.

Yogi is a professor and the Director of the Clean Energy Research Center at the University of South Florida. His son Dilip suffers from asthma. Yogi searched for existing solutions, but the products he found solved the problem of poor indoor air quality by filtering the air. But the professor concluded that this method was not efficient.

Brenda's son Connor plays rugby. There was no solution on the market to protect his ears. "Connor played rugby from mini rugby. From when he was wee he was always having to have head gear on and gloves and mouth guards to protect him. I always worried about him getting injured", she explained.

Brenda's invention consists of a silicon ear guard to prevent injury and protect cartilage. Her innovation is already being used by rugby players, judo professionals and wrestlers. Brenda hopes to roll it out to all contact sports internationally.

"The only clue as to why I was in the hospital was a thick, text-heavy book on my bedside table titled "Pink Panther's Guide to Understanding Type 1 Diabetes", the girl explained.

Lohitha had no idea what was happening on her body and felt responsible for developing diabetes. Her doctor drew a pancreas to explain how the disease works, but the patient wasn't able to understand why she would be needing to make so many meds. Besides that, she felt that the book she was given was too technical, especially for kids.

Jordan had the help of her prosthetist, David Rotter, and from Sam Hobish, a designer from Autodesk. Together they combined a medical-grade prosthetic arm with 3D printed attachments at the wrist.

Soria can’t move his legs and has very little hand movement. That is why he invented these two gadgets. FaceMOUSE Machine and FaceMOUSE Fly can be used without hands, voice or sensors.

These devices work by detecting movement via a webcam.

Regarding FaceMOUSE Machine, the user just has to move in front of the webcam and the cursor will move to the letters he wants it to move. It is recommended that the user uses the part of the body he controls best (nose, lip, finger, etc).

Nonni is a sphere-shaped drone which has a camera that transmits a video feed to a parent's smartphone. This drone is programmable, which means that the parent can instruct the drone to set boundaries for what is considered a safe space for the child — like a backyard or a playroom.

“It's sometimes just a challenge to do laundry or get chores done because you feel like you need to be there all the time,” Christine explained, saying that she created this device because there was nothing like this on the market. Nonni aims at monitoring children within the home.

Read Read consists of an interface which is composed of moveable tiles, each featuring letters or phonetic sounds, which correspond to braille symbols. Users interact with the Read Read, manipulating tiles to form words on a conductive grid and touching tiles to hear an audio representation of each letter or sound.

The app is free, and the name goes under the acronym CRADLE, ComputeR Assisted Detector of LEukocoria. It works by searching through all of the pictures stored in the mobile device in order to detect white eye. It can also be used in scanning mode by turning the smartphone into a crude ophthalmoscope and allowing the user to wave the device over the child’s eyes. Green boxes appear around the eyes, and if a reflection is detected, the box turns red.

Ed was diagnosed with the degenerative eye condition retinitis pigmentosa at the age of 10 and eventually went blind.

As he spent the last several years trying to close the vexing gap between data’s possibilities and its accessibility, Ed was driven to also develop this innovation because he found no solutions to help blind people read charts and graphs.

“The real unfortunate aspect of technological innovation in education and the workplace is the accessibility of charts and graphs really hasn’t kept up,” the inventor explained.

FEMA baby monitor consists of a wristband for the mother and an anklet for the baby. It works by alerting the parent via vibration, if the baby’s pulse/heartrate goes higher or lower than set parameters.

“It is very difficult to follow a gluten-free diet because gluten is added to many foods as a preservative or a binding agent. Paper diaries have been the most frequently used tool for self-monitoring dietary behaviours. But they aren’t the most effective. Diaries can be tedious, time-consuming and often inaccurate”, the inventor explained.

First Justine did a research, and came to the conclusion that 78% of smartphone owners in Canada don’t leave home without their phones.

The device uses the Julius open-source voice-recognition software, coupled with a USB microphone and runs on Raspberry Pi.

"What I love about Raspberry Pi is that it is so accessible to people, especially children," Amarra said.

The arm being used is connected to the Raspberry Pi alongside a USB microphone. The robot arm then moves its individual joints in response to voice commands.

Whenever Hannah had an asthma attack, she often had to go on a trip to the emergency room for a spirometry test. But she wondered if all of that was really necessary. Hannah started thinking about how to build a small portable measuring device that she could use at home, something that could also help other asthma patients avoid regular trips to the hospital.

Using 3D printing, the teen created a low-cost, accurate, portable spirometry device that allows an easier interface between patient and physician, using a mobile app.

Aly Cat, Bob’s caregiver, sometimes had to use a Hoyer lift and sling in order to transfer him safely.

Their routine was to stand Bob up, pull up/down his pants, and then place him into his wheelchair or onto the toilet or bed. Using the sling they were unable to do this. The first two days Bob would be transfered out of his wheelchair and onto the bed, put his pants down, roll him back into the sling, and then place him on the toilet.

The innovation is called Epi-Case, a smartphone case that holds two vials of epinephrine and can administer medicine with the push of a button. The device is 22 millimeters thick, making it slightly bigger than your average smartphone case. Both ends are covered by caps which can be removed when an allergic individual is having a severe reaction. The case is then held on the person’s outer thigh and once a button is pushed, the needle inside delivers the medicine.

The students had two approaches to solve this problem: Emily bought a $300 robot arm, which she would reprogram so that Katelyn could control it with a joystick. Michael chose a more mechanical approach, working with PVC pipes and joints because he thought that would feel more natural and independent, to extend Katelyn’s reach. They ended up choosing the approach created by Michael.

"A few years ago my grandfather died from lung cancer. And my dad is a cancer researcher. And I do a lot of robotics. So I wanted to help solve that problem," he said.

Devin has been creating this device since he was 11 years old.

His invention works by using 3D printing technology and special algorithms to automate cancer detection processes, which are usually time-consuming and tedious. The algorithms that Devin created try to determine whether a tumor is cancerous or benign, and helps guide pathologists on where to look for cancer in a given sample.