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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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Over 38,000 people die annually in automobile accidents in the U.S. alone with a society cost of over 700 billion. Machine vision commanding self-driving vehicles can have a dramatic reduction and almost eliminate human-caused accidents.Autonomous Vehicles are an exciting and promising new frontier that will dramatically reshape the modern world.
The issue with lithium ion batteries is that in each one there is enough electrical energy to create a spark, and they are filled with a flammable electrolyte. The only thing preventing the spark is a thin plastic separator, sometimes less than 10 microns thick. If there is a defect or damage to the cell that penetrates the membrane, 
Maingel is a bracelet with a capsule that allows you to store liquid products to be used later and quickly because it is only necessary to press on the capsule so that it doses part of its contents on the user's hand. This content can be antibacterial gel, moisturizing creams, among others.
Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) occur in 15% of hospitalized patients in the US (1.7 million cases/year) and result in approximately 90,000 deaths. The burden of disease is even higher in developing countries.
Healthcare workers’ hands are the most common vector in the transmission of microorganisms causing HAI. Good hand hygiene helps prevent infections in patients,
Our design idea, Neighborhood Resilience Centers (NRCs), solves the problem of access to power and communications following a disaster. Whether natural (earthquake, hurricane) or man-made (cyber or physical attacks on the electric grid), the lack of widely-available resilient energy and communication services complicates and lengthens recovery efforts, increases stress and suffering in the affected population,
Supersonic flight over land is currently severely restricted because sonic booms created by shock waves disturb people on the ground and can damage property. In 2022, NASA will begin validation tests of its X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (X-59 QueSST) aircraft, which is anticipated to produce a soft “thump” rather than a disruptive sonic boom. 
Boats, ships, passenger ferries, fishing vessels, and cargo vessels are getting capsized frequently due to accidents, head-on collisions, overloading etc. Many peoples lose their lives due to non availability of help, support, and life boats.
Many fisherman and other people die from sinking of boat in river or sea due to storms and waves, but it may be prevented if this innovation system is used to make a boat or trawler.
For this system, four foldable/contracting shafts (many hollow pipes will be placed into a hollow pipe,
This adaptive thermal engine achieve variation of the displacement and/or the compression ratio to assure optimum combustion conditions and provide power to the load adaptation engine, with direct implications on growth power and reduced consumption.
Advantages of new technology refer to a continuously / infinitely Variable Compression Ratio &
My design idea relates to energy engineering and more particularly to the alternative energy technology of getting power from physical forces, operating without burning fuel.
The first industrial revolution (1760 - 1840) used fuel, water and steam to mechanize production and transportation. We know the steam engine was one of the most important inventions at this time.
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