This disease cost the girl the use of her arm, although she can move her hand and wrist.

Bodo, who has a background in computing, created a 3D printed robotic arm brace that his helping his daughter move and has increased her chances of rehabilitation.

“Over the last several weeks she has now slowly started to regain the use of her arm and is able to move!”, the inventor explained.

Luis was always interested in game programming and digital electronics, and when he met a tetraplegic classmate, he got inspired to channel his knowledge and skills towards him.

“We discovered Sadie was autistic when she was two as she was not responding and interacting like you would expect at that age. It was a shock, but rather than feeling sorry for ourselves we decided we would do everything possible for Sadie,” he explained.

TippyTalk works by transferring images into text messages to allow non-verbal children to communicate more easily with their parents.

His therapist, Jason Kenner, from Australia, had the idea of creating, in 2014, a device which is a cross between a guitar and a harp so that Dinh can play using only one hand.

"We took the idea of a harp and incorporated that into a guitar body and built this little guitar harp for Dinh to play. It's been re-tuned so it sounds more like the harp with a pentatonic scale and so it allows him to play beautiful nice little melodies”, the inventor explained.
The design of the device allows the user to sling it over the shoulder and hold it in front of him.

Raghuraj was diagnosed with Diabetes in 2013. After talking to patients and doctors, he realized that there was a gap between what patients with chronic diseases like Diabetes needed and what support was currently available.

“I was personally frustrated. It was not efficiently managed. It’s a big problem, and there are not solutions that deal with it in the right manner”, he stated.

The inventor created HealthPlix, his own company, in 2015.

Shiva started thinking about creating this device in 2012, after he heard that a family member had lost both forearms.

“I decided to take matters into my own hands and design a prosthetic,” the inventor said.

This student’s innovation consists of a headset and an artificial arm that can be moved around by signals from a person’s brain that are transmitted over a wireless Bluetooth device. The arm only waves from side to side, while its fingers flex in and out. Nathan cannot control it very precisely.

“Our baby cried a lot and everybody was stressed so I started to research products that could help rock the baby and allow the whole family to sleep better. I found different baby rockers, but they were meant for living rooms and are not good for babies to sleep in”, she explained.

So Hanna invented a safe, comfortable and gently mattress which rocks a baby to sleep, by gathering a team of three and then she founded her own company – Familings.

Aulis had always found the steam in a sauna relieved his condition. In 2010 when he tried resistive breathing, the inventor realized the a powerful effect combining the two could have. So he built a prototype for personal use, and then Aulis understood its commercial potential.

“There is no building required. All you need is a string or something like string to thread threw the hole at the end and wrap around your wrist to keep secure”, the inventor wrote.

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Fawad, an electrical engineer, created this device because he belongs to a family with a history of tremor patients – both his uncles and his grandfather suffered from the disease. So the inventor knew how difficult it was to communicate progress to one’s doctor.

The Trequant works by tracking and analyzing tremor patterns to make it easier for patients to communicate critical information to their doctor, save data on the cloud, and get notifications when it’s time to take medication, by being connected to a mobile app.

Michael is a missions pastor who, while working in Haiti, got inspired to create low cost reusable diapers for the local children.

“A mama was holding on to a baby that was naked and the mom bent down and picked up fecal matter with her hand and threw it out of the house after the baby had went and done her business on her”, he explained.

Seeing this, the pastor started thinking about an executable and affordable solution that would prevent bacteria. And he came up with DriButts, with the help of his wife, a breathable diaper that doesn’t trap bacteria.

Ghotit Dyslexia Keyboard uses advanced writing and reading assistive technologies tailor-made for people with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and other learning disabilities.

"Mobile revolution has affected the way people consume information and communicate. More and more people are adopting mobile devises as the preferable means to communicate with each other. This is influencing the writing assistant tools developed for dyslexics. With Dyslexia Keyboard, people with dyslexia will be able to read, write and freely", the inventor explained.

So after concluding his PhD in nanotechnology in South Korea he started looking at nano materials that would be suitable for water purification.

The engineer’s innovation absorbs anything from copper and fluoride to bacteria, viruses and pesticides, having the advantage of being more affordable.

According to the inventor, this device should help the 70% of households in Tanzania that do not have clean drinking water.

The product is already trademarked and granted Askwar an award from the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering, worth £25,000.

The inventor was inspired by his grandparents, who were unable to get up from the sofa on their own.

Stand-a-Roo is a lightweight, foldable and portable metal aid that goes underneath the sofa cushion and works by allowing the arms to rise through the gaps.

The inventor designed this product thinking of his mother, who uses one arm for all the daily tasks, which causes her remaining arm to be overworked. 

Andrew was never comfortable being the kid in the wheelchair, so he felt the need to redesign the wheelchair.

“Wheelchairs have always been perceived as rather unfortunate medical devices. When you are the user of what is commonly perceived as an unfortunate medical device you don’t feel empowered”, the designer explained.

This wheelchair is lighter than the traditional ones because is made of carbon fiber, being also robust. It is custom made to each customer’s size and requirements.

 The Carbon Black costs £9,950, and it took Andrew about 30 years to design it.

“My platelet count had dropped to critical level and the only thing that would help me with my condition would be to undergo blood transfusion. Unfortunately for me, it was also the season of dengue. I realized that the supply of blood was low when the doctor had to tell my relatives to call as many people as they could who could donate blood. And they did,” he explained.

Because then it was so hard to get blood, he had to call his relatives. This is what inspired Joel to try and change this scenario, because it remains almost the same 20 years later.

Because mobility aids in his country are too expensive, he built his own solution, so that he could able to use a mobility device which doesn’t depend on his legs and can still move him around, being low cost.

“My father did not have any money for me so I never went to school. I have never ‘learned’ anything. I always enjoyed repairing my bike and that is why I ended up building wheelchairs”, he explained.

2016 entwarf Neti das Sohum. Sie hat eine Freundin aus Kindheitstagen, die von Geburt an taub ist. „Das Leben meiner Freundin war immer schon viel eingeschränkter als das unsere", erklärt sie.

Die Fähigkeit, hören zu können, ist deshalb so wichtig, weil sie nicht nur die Sprachentwicklung eines Kindes entscheidend beeinflusst - sie hat auch Auswirkungen auf die kognitive Entwicklung. Derzeit gibt es im indischen Gesundheitssystem kein Standardverfahren, mit dem Gehörschäden frühzeitig festgestellt werden können.

Anurudh created this solution because when he was a child, his grandparents had to carry him nearly 10 miles to get vaccinated, which meant that by the time he arrived to the destination, the treatment had become ineffective because of the lack of refrigeration.

"For many, that trek to be vaccinated is a matter of life and death," he justified.