Easter 2025
IMMI Watch – tracking menstrual health
Inventor: Sarah Cottee, IMMI Watch The IMMI Watch is a low-cost wearable health-tracker, designed to improve reproductive health byallowing teenagers and women of all ages track their menstrual cycles. Data is stored locally, ensuring privacy and accessibility regardless of the technological environment. Importantly the device is standalone, meaning that it works without a smartphone. This is especially…
Listo: Digitising agricultural markets in developing countries – increasing transparency
Inventors: David Godding & Paolo Daza, Listo Listo is transforming informal agricultural markets with a groundbreaking digital platform available on iOS, Android, and web. Their initial market is Colombia, where they aim to increase transparency and expand opportunities for smallholder farmers. The flexible and intuitive platform connects all stakeholders in the agricultural supply chain, creating…
Providing low-cost culturally-sensitive permanent housing for displaced communities
Inventor: Dr. Felipe Hernandez, Architecture There are currently over 5 million internally-displaced people in Colombia who have been displaced by conflict and 3 million more displaced by natural disasters. Internally-displaced people in Colombia are a priority for government housing, but the current designs focus on being small, cheap and fast to build, rather than in…
Amulet: A distributed patient health record for humanitarian settings
Inventor: Dr Brandon Smith, International Health Systems Group, Engineering Amulet is an ultra-low-cost wearable electronic health record (EHR) designed to address the challenges surrounding data-driven healthcare delivery in both resource-constrained and disrupted settings, such as conflict zones, humanitarian crises, and among displaced populations. The Amulet device securely stores critical health information in a small-format ‘wearable’,…
Using AI to manage the built environment, from campuses to
Inventors: Carl-Magnus von Behr & Jan Bluemel, INNEX.ai INNEX, founded by two former Cambridge PhD students, leverages AI to improve operations and compliance for built environment teams. The founders’ PhD research focused on knowledge sharing in the NHS and machine learning techniques, which when combined have created a strong foundation for the INNEX solutions. INNEX…
Using data to address the greatest challenge in the construction
Inventors: Professor Campbell Middleton, Dr Danny Murguia & Dr Ashan Asmone, Laing O’Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering & Technology Research group website: https://www.construction.cam.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/performance-productivity One of the greatest challenges faced by the construction sector is to measure performance, and reduce the incidence of project delays and cost over-runs. This affects the whole range of construction projects…
Aiding the net-zero transition by using solar power to convert
Inventors: Professor Erwin Reisner, Dr Sayan Kar, Ji Woo Park, Chemistry Press release: Solar-powered device captures carbon dioxide from air to make sustainable fuel For additional information : See the inventors' Nature Energy paper, published February 2025 The Reisner group in the Department of Chemistry focuses on developing devices to convert waste, water and air…