虽然女孩可以移动她的手和手腕，但是这种疾病使得女孩很难使用她的手臂。

具有计算背景的博多（Bodo）创造了一个3D打印的机器人手臂支架，以帮助他的女儿移动，并增加了让她康复的机会。

“在过去的几个星期里，她已经慢慢地开始重新使用她的手臂，并能够移动！”，发明人解释说。

父亲博多被告知，传统的治疗方法只能给洛雷莱（Lorelei）5％的恢复机会，目前最先进的治疗方法对于她不合适，并且成本太高。于是，他把这件事交到了自己的手中，开始研究机器人外骨骼的辅助器械，这些器械能够帮助瘫痪或部分瘫痪的人们学习或重新学习，从而有效地使用他们的肌肉。

博多扫描洛雷莱的胳膊，准确测量她的尺寸，然后设计并3D打印出两个适合她的前臂和上臂的轻质支架。然后将支架与通过嵌入式传感器控制的致动器连接。之后后，父亲开始在YouTube上发布视频，以获得其他人的建议。

“几个星期后，我们对所需的所有组件都有了很好的了解，在预算紧张的情况下，我们进行了采购......我们买了一块Arduino，一块EKG板，各种传感器，并建了一个手臂钻机来测试。“博多说。

在用不同的材料进行原型设计，并得到来自世界各地的志愿者的帮助后。父女两人着手开始训练一种算法，以识别她何时试图移动她的手臂，之后她开始用虚拟手臂进行练习。

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.

Neeti created this innovation, in 2016, because she has an Indian childhood friend who was born with hearing problems. “She has had a totally different life to the rest of us, with very few opportunities”, the inventor explained.

Hearing is very important because it affects the child’s cognitive, language and speech development. Also, there is currently no standard screening system in the Indian healthcare system.

With the help of her husband, Nitin Sisodia, she launched the Sohum Innovation Lab, and the lab’s first product is a device to screen babies for hearing loss.

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.