Gadgets, gizmos and apps that will help us look after ourselves better have gone on display at the Design Museum in Shad Thames.

The 24 shortlisted entries for the Health Tech and You Awards are available to see and have a poke around until April 26.

More than 120 tech innovations were entered in the awards, with four candidates making the shortlisted in each of six categories. The winners, including an overall champion, will be announced on March 18.

Among the tech you can experience are a bruise suit that helps disabled athletes with a loss of sensation to see where they have been injured and how badly in real time, a pen that translate colour into sound to assist the visually impaired and a specially-installed bed to experience an app designed to make you sleep better.



Here are five of our favourites:

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Brush DJ

A free app that is NHS approved and makes sure you spend the right amount of time cleaning your teeth by playing two minutes of music you’ve chosen. It also lets you set reminders to brush, floss, use mouth wash or see a dentist or hygienist. There’s age specific info and even video guides on how to look after your gnashers. Go to brushdj.com

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PIP Biosensor and Apps

Learn to keep your stress under control with a scientifically-proven little sensor that measures your emotional stress through your fingertips. Your stress levels are displayed in real time and the gaming-style apps help you keep them in check by slowing your performance as you get more stress and improving it as you relax. Go to thepip.com

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Nuffield HealthScore

Manage your overall health on-the-go with this free mobile app which measures six different areas – exercise, nutrition, steps, body composition, sleep and stress – and combines them together to give you an overall score to motivate you to do better. There’s also advice. Go to nuffieldhealthscore.com

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Symptom Checker

A website which enables you to enter your symptoms - as well as taking into account your age, gender and where you’re from – and gives you evidence-based insight and advice so you feel more empowered when discussing your symptoms with your GP. Go to patient.co.uk/symptom-checker

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BleepBleeps

Parenting tech brand BleepBleeps are developing a range of tools for savvy parents and parents-to-be to stay on the ball using top gizmos. The first is the Sammy Screamer – a movement sensor that is placed on anything, like a buggy, door or bag and connects to an app to let you know if it moves, in other words if the buggy is moved, the door opens or the bag is tampered with.

There’s an app to help you get pregnant, give birth, look after the baby and raise your child and other bits and piece in the pipeline like the Tony Tempa ear thermometer. Go to bleepbleeps.com