Lightbulb Ideas Competition

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CAnswer is a groundbreaking portable biopsy kit transforming skin cancer diagnosis by eliminating the need for hospital-based procedures. Designed for quick, easy to use, painless, and efficient sample collection and analysis, it enables easy, on-the-spot diagnosis outside hospital settings. With a cost-effective, portable, long-shelf-life design, CAnswer significantly enhances accessibility, reduces hospital dependency, and accelerates early cancer detection, ensuring faster, more patient-friendly diagnostics.

Around 1.5 million people worldwide are diagnosed with skin cancer annually, with cases rising at an alarming 9%. The current diagnostic method, tru-cut biopsy, requires a minor surgical procedure performed exclusively in hospitals. This not only strains healthcare resources and increases costs but also leads to delays in diagnosis (six to nine months waiting time in NHS), reduced patient compliance, and significant psychological distress. People's fear of hospitals often prevents them from seeking early diagnosis, worsening survival rates and treatment outcomes.

CAnswer's integrated AI software enables pathologists to upload pathological slide images from anywhere in the world. Using computational AI, the system provides a list of differential diagnoses, making the entire diagnostic process more accurate, fast, and efficient. This combination of portable hardware and AI software ensures faster, more patient-friendly diagnostics while significantly enhancing accessibility to cancer detection.

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Karto transforms social networking by making location the central organising principle. Unlike conventional platforms that rely on friends’ networks or isolated posts, Karto maps real-time, user-generated content to physical places, creating a dynamic, location-first social experience. Users can zoom in for hyper-local interactions or out for a global perspective, seamlessly bridging community and worldwide discovery.

Traditional social media platforms lack a meaningful connection to real-world locations, creating a disconnect between online content and real-world places. Content exists in isolated feeds, disconnected from physical spaces, limiting real-time discovery and local engagement. The social media market is valued at over $250billion globally and consistently growing as users seek more focused and authentic experiences. Users, especially college students and travellers, seek authentic, location-based insights.

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Relief Diagnostics replaces traditional pain measurement methods with AI-driven, real-time monitoring. Its wearable sensors, unintrusive on body sensors, track pain intensity, type, and location using advanced machine learning, providing objective, round-the-clock data for patients and healthcare providers. Unlike standard pain scales, which capture a single moment in time, our system offers continuous tracking, enabling:

Pain is subjective, often communicated through facial expressions or self-reported scales. This reliance on patient descriptions leads to inconsistent, inaccurate, and delayed diagnoses, making treatment difficult - especially for chronic pain sufferers, who make up over 20% of the population. The global health tracking market is projected to reach $290 billion by 2032, but current solutions fail to provide continuous, objective pain measurement.

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ZygoteLink is a game-changing web platform that modernises livestock breeding by integrating a global, transparent, and data-driven marketplace. It offers a smart marketplace for monitored semen transactions, ensuring traceability and genetic diversity. Its AI-powered crossbreeding suggestions improves breed selection for higher efficiency and its on-demand mobile lab services bring instant breeding tests, artificial insemination, and sex-sorting directly to the farm.

Livestock breeders face slow, inefficient, and disconnected breeding processes due to a lack of transparent, traceable, and accessible semen marketplaces. Current methods rely on company-owned/contracted, limited breed genetics, expensive and selective services, and time-consuming on-farm breeding tests with no sex-sorting capabilities at the farm level. This results in lower profitability and limited genetic diversity, especially for breeders in remote areas.