1st place: Haptic Stethoscope

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"As many doctors age, they may lose their hearing which will affect their experience using a traditional stethoscope, and ultimately, their ability to effectively treat the patient. The traditional stethoscope does not operate well with hearing aids or Cochlear Implants, due to the ear bud style auditory output. This design uses a sensitive microphone behind a diaphragm to pick up the sound vibrations of the heart beat, and this signal is then filtered, amplified and projected through an actuator to recreate the mechanical vibration of the heart. In the future, we hope to improve the design with improved sensors, user interface and to integrate the tactile feedback component with a traditional stethoscope for dual modality diagnosis abilities." 
- David Lahm, Alec Hill, Yuchen Gu

 

2nd place: Third-I

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"Using Google Tango AR device we created a system that allowed users to have a location and the device would control the direction for the visual impaired person to go. Using the depth sensor the phone would vibrate as it got closer to an object. The main goal was an app and device to help visual impaired people find their way around a building"
-Vinay Janardhanam, Ted Martinez, Spencer Fricke, Yan Xiao

 

3rd place: Page Turner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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"Our team built a prototype of an electronic page turner. This device can clip to a book of your choosing and turn pages either forward or backward one at a time. This device can positively impact the lives of those with low motor movement in hands, or those without hands/arms."
- Seth Eiseman, Kevin Kirk, Ben Gabbard 

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