As it happens with most babies, after they are put in the crib and the person takes their hand off their belly, they wake up.

This led Melissa to have the idea of placing a blown-up rubber glove on her baby Olivia's stomach, allowing her to get some time to get other things done.

Ergo-Egg is a writing aid gadget that enables cerebral palsy patients to communicate.

She was driven to create this device because, in her country, there is a lot of stigma around this condition.

A father from the UK found a solution to help his newborn baby fall asleep more easily.

The father had the idea of putting a baby in a remote control miniature truck. The motion of the vehicle gently rocks the child into sleep.

The truck input in autopilot mode and drives the baby from room to room.

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Mihika, a young student, and her mother Manisha, were helping an old blind woman across the street when she tripped. This made Mihika want to find a solution.
“An elderly lady was crossing the road and she nearly fell over a step. This upset Mihika and she said ‘I will make a stick so the blind can cross safely’. She got some paper and made her initial design”, the mother recalled.

Jessie was a football player. One time, she was struck by another player. But she didn’t even notice how it had affected her. “A couple of days later my coach called and said he had been watching the footage. He just kept saying ‘You got rocked.’ What freaked me out was that I didn’t realize I was hurt when I actually was really hurt”, the entrepreneur recalled.

The woman wasn’t so worried about the physical pain wasn’t as much of a concern as the lack of resources available for concussion detection. So she started to work on developing a solution for detection concussions.

It all happened during a family vacation, and she was trying to adjust her daughter’s goggles.

Eyal is an entrepreneur who has three children. He built them a swimming pool and was always worried about safety.

One day, the entrepreneur read about an Israel girl who drowned in a private swimming pool. That’s when he decided to take action and develop a device to safe kids from drowning.

And so Coral Manta (the device was named after the girl who drowned) was born. According to the inventor, this is the first and only computer vision-based drowning detection system for private pools.

Lucy decided to launch this collection of wheelchair-attachable accessories when she saw that her cousin had very limited options in the market.

Some scientific words, like “deoxyribonucleotide”, are very difficult to spell in sign language. It was already tough for Liam to keep up with all the college workload, let alone to spell these scientific words.

Although there are some British Sign Language (BSL) translations for scientific vocabulary words, it’s very limited for college-level communication. As this was making Liam more and more frustrated.

“It is our own experiences which are so impactful and to have a friend who had alopecia too meant we could support each other and share the good and bad days. To chat with someone who is going through the same journey as you and so can fully relate really helped me cope with my sudden hair loss. People without alopecia make off-hand comments like ‘it’s just hair’ which can be really frustrating to hear.

Annie set out to invent this solution after the scrapbooks stopped working when her grandfather stopped being able to remember her name.

So, with the help of her middle school classmates, she built Remember Me, a mobile app that which uses facial recognition technology and a smartphone camera to help Alzheimer's patients recognise family, friends, and caregivers.

The app works by taking a picture and then giving the user detailed information such as the person’s name, relationship to the patient, and even locate previous photos of the two together.

"I created my life on camera to raise awareness of the struggles people with autism have when they experience sensory overload. I often have to wear special earplugs that reduce noise around me so that it's less overwhelming. I have specific places in Birmingham where I like to go, where I know that it's quiet and I won't have any problems like the Arket Cafe. I travelled to London, Birmingham, Crewe and Salford and in doing so was able to demonstrate how sensory overload, poor city planning can all contribute to difficult situations.

Trevor, a missionary from the White Fathers (the Society of Missionaries of Africa), was in Tamala, Ghana when he saw a lot of marginalised and vulnerable disabled people who were living in the streets.

He wanted to do something to help them and so he had the idea of creating a wheelchair tricycle that enables the user to sit in a wheelchair-type bike seat and move pedals with their hands, enabling them to have mobility.

For this, the priest had the help of volunteers and donors. He developed theses devices using pieces of old bicycles donated by friends or acquaintances.

Sarah realised leaning heavily on her left arm was taking its toll. However, she wasn’t able to couldn’t find a device to help. That’s when she contacted Remap, a charity that helps people with disabilities overcome their problems and to build amazing gadgets, big or small depending on what someone's problem is, helping them to be more independent.

Carol’s husband, Irwing, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2006 and with dementia in 2009. He played the saxophone and piano throughout his life.

Things got more difficult for the couple when, in 2014, Irwin started to not respond well to the medication. However, at the time, he got back to playing the piano (for the first time since he had been diagnosed). From that day, he seemed more aware, responsive, energetic and communicative.

"I was at my wit's end, and finally something positive happened. The music actually resurrected him”, Carol noted.

Louis is a child and family psychotherapist. He had the idea for this solution at a hospice in London while helping parents with a terminal illness talk to their children about coming to the end of their life.

Mental Health Match consists of a free service people can use choose the therapists that fits them perfectly.

Ryan decided to create this website after his mother died suddenly. He wanted to see a therapist and he was very surprised when he realised that it took him a long time to find a therapist he liked. This also happened to some of his friends.

"Our technology platform allows us to predict therapies with significantly higher accuracy and safety, much faster than conventional approaches. We are changing the whole model”, Tim observed.

Elimelech lost his first child, Sarah, to leukaemia, in 1981. when she was two years old.

That (and seeing other kids in pain) inspired the martial arts teacher to found Kids Kicking Cancer. “We use martial arts as a platform for meditation, for relaxation, to allow children to gain these tools and to really face down so much of the fear and the anger and the junk that accompanies pain," Elimelech explained.

"I felt like I had no control over myself, and I was afraid of myself," Andrew said.

Because of that, he went sought professional help. However, it was only when he went surfing that he began to heal and feel more alive.

"I had my ass handed to me that day, but it was the first time I felt alive again. I could go out there and just turn off the world”, the founder recalled.