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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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The team ENENT believes that the efficiency of the existing systems could drastically be improved by inculcating innovative techniques into it. Following our vision, the team made an innovation power distribution device that saves 20%-25% of the electricity bills. The device shifts phases in milliseconds to prevent imbalance being created into the system.
eShepherd is a world-first livestock virtual herding solution that provides remote pasture management, and animal monitoring for improved livestock and land welfare. Developed in Australia for the global market, eShepherd helps farmers manage their animals and land more effectively in the face of climate change. 
The present invention provides an improved vascular occlusion device and an associated surgical method which allows for primary treatment of saccular intracranial or peripheral aneurysms. Two covered or uncovered interlocking or intertwined helical devices may be assembled within the aneurysm sac to generate aneurysm occlusion and thereby sparing the parent vessel.
The simpler version has only two parts, both injection-molded plastic -- a rocket-shaped outer cylinder and a matching plunger with fin-like finger-grips.
Ground Based Transport chokes the atmosphere & heat-kills Earth’s life, by trillions of cuts and billions of exhausts.
Earth’s limited fossil fuel drives this Vicious-Cycle-System which, once exhausted, leaves no good way to Transport goods or people.
My heavy-payload pole-supported system ‘Transports’ humanity into a nature-friendly Virtuous-Cycle Paradigm.
Supported by vehicle registration fees or gasoline and automobile sales taxes, the openly available app for mobile phones will communicate with traffic regulating authorities to adjust traffic signals in response to traffic patterns in real time.
Diabetes is a disease that affects 371 million people worldwide, and 187 million of them do not even know they have the disease. In 2010, working-age adults made an average of 3.9 visits to doctors, nurses or other medical providers, down from 4.8 in 2001, according to a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The crutch has four primary components; a straight sturdy shaft of aluminum tubing, an upper-arm cuff,
The first stage of a typical multistage rocket is essentially a flying launch pad for the second stage. As the largest and heaviest section of the rocket,
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