When Barbara, a retired licensed occupational therapist, began to help her daughter Becca with childcare, she quickly realized that because of the arthritis in her thumb, she was unable to push the car seat button in order to release her granddaughter from her car seat. And as a result, she avoided taking her granddaughter out of the house.

It all started with a conversation with their leader Ana, who explained to them that a simple heart shaped pillow could bring the comfort that is so often lacking after this procedure. At the moment there are already small rectangular-shaped pillows that are provided by the hospitals in order to ease this type of discomfort, but they are not well fitted and don't provide as much pressure release as the heart shaped ones.

Soon after Rajlakshmi Borthakur son was born in 2011, he was diagnosed with epilepsy, which lead him from a rather young age, to start having epileptic seizures. While his condition quickly worsened, and he began suffering from full-blown seizures that required immediate medical attention, his mother started reading papers, journals and medical books on neurology, in order to better understand her son's condition.

When Danny Jordan and his wife first learn that their daughter Emmerson would be born with a limb difference, they knew that she was coming to a world that was not so much informed about the disability and also not so kind towards it. Worrying thoughts came to their minds as they envisioned their daughter's future, but instead of being consumed with the future, they began to change the present.

When Rasmus, Nikolaj's son, was diagnosed with autism, his family wanted to provide the best type of therapy as soon as possible, allowing him to thrive and become as successful as he could. Unfortunately, they encountered multiple problems when trying to arrange therapy, either because of the distance between them and the nearest Board Certified Behavior Analyst, the hours of therapy not fitting their schedule, or the tedious bureaucracy that is put in place before accessing this type of therapy.

A sophomore in college, Erik Kondo played multiple sports, was a member of the hiking club and was majoring in physics and maths. He was loving life – until a motorcycle accident at 30 years ago made him lose his ability to walk, and become confined to a wheelchair. Even though spinal cord injuries rehabilitation usually took about six months, in five weeks he was out, back with his life and friends, barely stopping for a second to dwell on the accident that had just changed his life. Nevertheless, he missed one aspect of his old life more than others, riding a skateboard.

Birkley Logan is a 13 years old living in Colorado, that was diagnosed at birth with deafness and cerebral palsy due to a viral infection during her mother's pregnancy. With these disabilities Birkley has several difficulties walking and moving around, being one of them playing around with her friends at the playground in an up right position. In order to bypass this struggle, Birkley started to shuffle around on her knees, which resulted in scrapes and bruises when playing on hard and splintery wood on the deck, or on the rough asphalt in the cul de sac near her house.

When faced with daily activities, people with some degree of cognitive dysfunctions, such as autism, ADHD, dementia or acquired brain injury rely on a system of very structured and very visual planing of every activity that happen throughout their day. This allows the patient to preserve time and energy, which in result frees them to focus on the things that matter to them, and which they enjoy doing. By giving this type of structure, the patient actively removes the uncertainty in revolving the activities of the day, enabling the user to develop other skills that they most enjoy.

When Pedro was starting up as an acoustic engineer in Copenhagen, he saw that due to being hard of hearing his whole life, he wasn't able to enjoy music via his headphones the same way as everyone else!

As a type I diabetic, Peter opted for a CGM (Freestyle Libre) sensor, located on the back of the upper arm, which tracked his glucose levels day and night. This device would become loose every time he was swimming, doing yoga and some times while doing daily activities, which as very energetic person meant that he was always worried about his sensor.

When Manmeet learned that his nephew was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, he knew that his life would have severe mobility limitations due to this disease. This event ignited something in Manmeet and his family, catapulting them in to a rabbit hole of "exoskeletons" that were only available for adults, leaving the children to fend for themselves in improving their quality of life.

When training a caregiver on the process of exchanging the G-tube in patients, Laura saw that only a more theoretical approach was carried out, leaving the practical day to day course of managing a PEG or G-tube behind. She believed that this wasn't neither efficient nor pratical, and assembled a team of innovators composed of Isabell Dechamps, Adrian Jobst, Lydia Hentschel and Anas Ktech and got to work on a solution.