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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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contest/2019
2019
The novel integrated motor-generator (IMG) is an electromechanical system that produces electrical energy continuously after having received an initial input mechanical energy.
With reference to FIGURE 1, the IMG consists primarily of a rotor and a stator. The rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnets fixedly mounted to a shaft (not shown) for rotation therewith.
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Connected by a revolutionary new cellular-based technology, the Kiwi empowered by Skyhawk allows you to monitor belongings and remote items located virtually anywhere* without the need for external power or other internet connections, such as WiFi or Bluetooth.
Using advanced MEMS sensor technology, the Kiwi can monitor assets that are touched,
Many future space mining applications involve capturing a small asteroid and putting it in orbit around earth and mining the asteroid for the various compounds it contains. One of the main compounds that will be mined is water. Water (in the form of ice) is one of the main constituents of most asteroids. From that water,
BikeUp is the main ally of the population, against vehicular traffic in the city of Lima. It seeks to increase the number of people who use bicycles to transport to different places, and for this, within this application you can accumulate "money" according to the number of kilometers traveled by bicycle, which will be called "bi-credits.
There are two ongoing revolutions in modern automotive industry. The first is the development of autonomous vehicles which is leading to greatly improved safety, traffic economy, environment and passenger comfort.
Contemporary gasoline-powered vehicles use On-Board Diagnostics 2 (OBD2) to determine whether a vehicle is within emission standards. This is achieved by monitored certain parameters; e.g., catalytic converter operation, exhaust gas recirculation operation, etc. Rationality testing on sensors is also done; e.g., whether engine coolant temperature readings make sense. OBD2 is incapable of finding certain problems. For example,
The first educational toy to teach coding without the need to know how to read. The Ifs is a family of robots with sensors through different color pieces that are placed on their heads. The different color pieces are instructions that are combined as if it were a code,
Innovation is a thin, flexible “Matrix Hinge." This hinge is novel in many ways; it is durable, lightweight, and continuous and is not like any other hinge. The hinge is excellent in tiny applications to large building construction base on the material used to make the unique configuration. The hinge is nonmetallic, non-conductivity, waterproof, rust free,
Interacting with objects just looking at them has always been a dream for humans. Eye of Horus is an open source platform to control any device just looking at them. The project (hardware & software) was built from scratch in Zaragoza to solve the a Global Wearables challenge. This device could help physically handicapped people on their tasks.
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The large vehicle passing maneuver assistance device (LVPMAD) is designed to assist motorists to safely pass a large vehicle. The LVPMAD processors would track the speed of the large vehicle, location and speed of the passing vehicle. Inclinometer would determine road grade (which drastically affects braking distance),
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