--- description: Find out why BiVacor Total Artificial Heart is one of the best inventions of 2024 title: BiVacor Total Artificial Heart: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc92fc2008070bdaa/698a8a0db21a9c188650f285/BiVacor-total-artificial-heart-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Oct 30, 2024 # Groundbreaking Cardio Replacement by [Jamie Ducharme](/author/jamie-ducharme/) ## Jamie Ducharme Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Ducharme is a contributor to TIME.  Almost 25 years after his father died of heart failure, Australian biomedical engineer Daniel Timms is trying to revolutionize cardiac care. Timms’ company [BiVacor](http://bivacor.com "undefined") makes an artificial heart that, just like the real thing, can propel blood throughout the body. As part of an ongoing feasibility study, three U.S. patients this year received BiVacor hearts, which kept them alive long enough to wait for donor organs. That result is “remarkable,” Timms says, but his ambitions are even bigger. If short-term trials are successful, BiVacor will test whether its heart can work indefinitely, perhaps eliminating the need for live-organ transplants altogether. “This device didn’t exist for my family,” Timms says, but it could be life-changing—and life-saving—for others. These are independent reviews of the products mentioned, but TIME receives a commission when purchases are made through affiliate links at no additional cost to the purchaser. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094892/bivacor-total-artificial-heart/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094892/bivacor-total-artificial-heart/"},"headline":"BiVacor Total Artificial Heart: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024","datePublished":"2024-10-30T11:06:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T11:54:34.063Z","description":"Find out why BiVacor Total Artificial Heart is one of the best inventions of 2024","url":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094892/bivacor-total-artificial-heart/","keywords":["Tech","E-Commerce","list","franchise","Magazine","best inventions"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc92fc2008070bdaa/698a8a0db21a9c188650f285/BiVacor-total-artificial-heart-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jamie Ducharme","jobTitle":"Ducharme is a contributor to TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/"}],"creator":"Jamie Ducharme","articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc92fc2008070bdaa/698a8a0db21a9c188650f285/BiVacor-total-artificial-heart-best-inventions.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094892/bivacor-total-artificial-heart/","name":"BiVacor Total Artificial Heart: the 200 Best Inventions of 2024"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"2024 Best Inventions: Digit","description":"Digit is a humanoid robot trained by AI to carry out physical tasks in manufacturing and logistics","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/A7SwvpeE/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2024-10-29T19:07:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/A7SwvpeE.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094892/bivacor-total-artificial-heart/","duration":"PT1M41S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/best-inventions-2024/7094892/bivacor-total-artificial-heart/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```