What connects a retrofitted 3D printer, a camera and the internet to preventing loss of vision? The answer lies with a group of creative engineering researchers from the University of Auckland, led by Dr Jaspreet Dhupia and Dr Renoh Johnson Chalakkal.

The statistics around stroke in New Zealand make for grim reading, but Bala Nair, senior research programme manager from AUT’s National Institute for Stroke and Applied Neurosciences (NISAN), believes a stroke prevention tool developed by his team can change that.

Edoardo Galli was fit and healthy until a complex chronic illness gave him a shopping list of symptoms and few answers, as tests came back normal and treatments were lacking. Like many people in similar situations, he was left looking for ways to self-manage his health and found one strategy – pacing.