Popular Science picks CPR Glove as top 10 invention

[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/cpr-glove-top-10.jpg” caption=”Electrical and biomedical engineering students Nilesh Patel and Corey Centen invented the CPR Glove. Photo by Ron Scheffler.”]The life-saving CPR Glove designed by two electrical and biomedical engineering students at McMaster has received another recognition.
Popular Science magazine has selected the CPR Glove as one of the year's top 10 inventions and featured it in their June issue. It is the only invention selected from Canada.

The black, nylon, one-size-fits-all CPR Glove invented by Corey Centen and Nilesh Patel features a series of sensors and chips that measure the frequency and depth of compressions being administered during CPR and outputs the data to a digital display.

The invention was inspired by a study showing that survival rates from cardiac arrest have not improved even though millions of people are trained in CPR annually. This is because people forget what they've learned in training classes in as little as six months.

Since graduating in April, Centen and Patel have established Atreo Medical Inc. to develop and market the CPR Glove.

Other inventions making the top-10 list include a silent, stronger Velcro; a wall-climbing machine; a Kevlar and steel net that catches helicopter-bound grenades; a computer mouse worn like a ring that works in three dimensions; a levitating arrow rest; an inflatable satellite antenna; a compact, six-stroke steam engine; a wand-style, telescoping stun gun; and building bricks made of fly-ash, a waste product of coal-fired plants.

Popular Science is a general interest science and technology magazine published in the United States. It has a readership of more than seven million people.