The Danish Tech Challenge 2022 batch | Futurebox

Ausculto

Ausculto produces a patent-pending medical patch for monitoring arterio-venous fistulas (AVF) in patients beginning in hemodialysis treatment. The medical patch automatically monitors the sound of blood flow in the AVF. It can notify the patient and healthcare personnel at the hospital in case of dysfunction of the AVF. The patch can relieve the already heavily burdened patients from the responsibility to monitor their health, a task many feel uneasy about performing themselves. The solution will potentially result in significantly fewer chronic damages for approximately 180.000 patients annually with kidney diseases in Europe and USA.

Colofact

Colofact produces a patent-pending hand-held medical pen for cancer screening in feces. The device performs the analysis, and the results are provided immediately to the user and the national health digital platform. The solution can potentially secure early detection of colorectal cancer, the second deadliest cancer worldwide.

Droplet IV

Droplet IV has developed flushing of IV tubes that ensures the elimination of residual medicine after medication administration. The solution will potentially help reduce the time for nurses on manual flushing and reduce mistakes with underdosed patients.

EmpTech

EmpTech is producing exoskeleton gloves for companies to help reduce injuries on people performing tasks which are too complex to automate. The solution will potentially reduce muscle diseases which annually cost hundreds of billions in the EU alone in damages and lost productivity.

Flowpoint

Flowpoint has developed a single network hardware unit based on AI and computer vision which will be integrated into existing CCTV systems and deliver a new ethical approach to counting people and vehicles. The solution will potentially reduce the risks of violating people’s rights and the risk of data misuse and leaks.

Husheye

Husheye has developed a cover for heat pumps that absorbs noise and hides their unappealing exterior. The solution decreases the loud sound that heat pumps typically produce and increases their physical appeal to look eye-catching and elegant. These two changes enable homeowners in dense neighbourhoods previously prevented by noise regulations to easily shift from natural gas and place heat pumps wherever they want while saving 2000-6000kg of CO2 annually! Husheye’s simple but effective product removes the challenges of installing heat pumps and transforms how we perceive them.

Hyspec Medtech

Hyspec Medtech has developed a medical instrument that can do whole tissue analysis and use AI to classify the tissue as either benign or malign. The solution will potentially eliminate a complicated and lengthy process and, as such, reduce cost and time for both patient and hospital.

Insight Chips

Insight Chips enables atomic insights with their nanoscience platform that makes it possible to see individual atoms in liquids like batteries, medicine and power-to-X solutions! The platform is called the Nano Channel Chip and is essentially the world's smallest lab-on-a-chip, for the first time enabling atomic resolution of interesting processes happening in liquids. It enables nanoscientists to simulate batteries, drug delivery in live action or the dynamic behaviour of a protein. The Nano Channel Chip is a platform which opens the door for a multitude of scientific breakthroughs by seeing what actually goes on at an atomic level.

IoTBee

IoTBee is developing a dynamic and programmable printable circuit board that makes it easy to add and change sensors like pieces of Lego. The solution will potentially enable time-efficient implementation of different IoT use-cases to specific needs without changing hardware.

ODrone

ODrone is developing an autonomous underwater drone that retrieves golf balls and plastic by employing intelligent vision technology. The solution will be a cost-efficient alternative to help retrieve more than 30.000 tons of golf balls lost in water bodies each year.

Pinkorange

Pinkorange is working on reducing injury and health complications due to childbirth.

Poulsen Motors

Poulsen Motors has developed an electric motorcycle with an interchangeable frame design that allows for customised models. The solution will potentially optimize the logistics of motorcycle parts and reduce cost and CO2 emissions from manufacturing and transportation.

SpiroMann

SpiroMann is producing a patented pocket-size hardware device that connects to an app that monitors breathing and provides early warning to asthma patients before attacks. The solution will potentially prevent chronic lung diseases for 434 million asthma patients globally.

tinyfarms

tinyfarms aims to change the way students learn about key topics such as sustainability, nutrition and biology by making the first interactive farm for the purpose of education. Teachers use the farm as a pedagogical robotic system, allowing their students to experiment with plant growth through the programming of their ambient conditions, as well as measuring the capture of carbon and the effect of heat.

T-Trikes

T-Trikes has developed an electrical go-kart with a radical new design that both lowers maintenance costs and enables go-karts to drift and slide, increasing the fun of driving. The solution will help the go-kart industry to offer more activities in one place and attract a wider target group.

Unwired Things

Unwired Things produces an “all-in-one" remote for people with blindness or severe visual impairment to navigate their surroundings. The device uses interchangeable sensors to translate variables such as temperature for cooking or distance for walking into audio. The solution potentially allows more than 100 million visual impaired people to self-manage easily and cost-effectively, thereby increasing their quality of life.

Uvisa Health

Uvisa Health is developing a patent-pending home treatment device of vaginal infections, including bacteria and fungi infections. The solution will potentially reduce the risks of infertility, miscarriage, and pre-term birth, which recurrently affect more than 1 billion worldwide annually.

Voxel Printers

Voxel Printers has developed a volumetric 3D printer capable of printing complex geometries within minutes compared to 10-20 hours with conventional 3D printers. The solution will allow manufacturers to achieve mass customisation and reduce costs for user-specific hearing aids and dental retainers.

Yuman

Yuman has developed a mobile robot with interchangeable cabinets that can transport a multitude of hospital-related goods ranging from pills to food or laundry. The solution will potentially help nurses free up time doing non-nursing, routine tasks during a working day, which today is done by 77% of the nurses.