Silver | Digital Initiative for Consumers, 2021

For those with cystic fibrosis, daily treatments with vests that pound the chest are a way of life — but they’re loud and uncomfortable. The Sick Beats vest uses 40Hz soundwaves, turning therapy into a source of inspiration. To find thousands of songs in that range, it uses AI to search Spotify so that patients can dance their way through treatments. Our judges call it a “bold approach that unites technology and science.”