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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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More babies die from sleep-related dangers than from any other cause.In the 1990's, the Back to Sleep campaign taught parents how to lessen the chances of SIDS and accidental suffocation and strangulation, and fatalities dropped by 40%. But Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths have continued at a steady rate for more than 20 years.
The Smart Life Guard Pajamas (SLGP) can be useful in two main cases:
1) In the case of Sudden Cardiac Arrest – A lot of adult people suffer from cardiac problems, which can cause Cardiac Arrest. Because of this reason plenty of people die during sleep, without any chance of medical help.
Kilowatt Killer is designed to improve Whole House Fan (WHF). According to the Department of Energy, WHF can replace your air conditioner (AC) most of the year in most climates.
The improvement we made is in casing design and controller. The casing minimizes obstruction of view, locate motor behind the wall to lower decibels, secure open window,
An elephant tooth is one of the biggest illegal market in the world and it is one of the main reasons why there are illegal killing elephants.
This concept produces electricity by the wind. We need a round column that is 240 ft high and 4 ft diameter. On the top of column we have around frame, that is 200 ft diameter and 314 curbs blade fan, to attach to the top and bottom of the column spindle. At the bottom there is a spindle gear,
Military organizations and industries use generators and electrical motors in day to day operations. To get the upper hand over adversaries and/or the competition it is best to have the best new tool around, "Forever Fuel." "Forever Fuel" is an Anti-Gravity Engine that reduces electrical needs (loads) for electrical motors up to 40%.
This proposal is for SOLID STATE storage which has already been successfully prototyped, incorporating several different chemistries. Although this manufacturing technique can be used with many battery and capacitor combinations and chemistries the inventors have mostly executed akaline combinations thus far. Plastic injection molding is the manufacturing platform. It is a well established high speed manufacturing method,
The battery is a crucial element of our daily lives. As devices become more mobile and interconnected, demands for higher battery capacity, longer duration, and better safety grow much faster than the commercial offer introduced to the market today. Additionally,
Most power plants for motorized vehicle transportation utilize fossil-fuel burning power plants known as internal combustion engines (ICE) that produce carbon gas emission hazardous to human health and the environment. Introduction of EV technology attempts to minimize the unintended unacceptable side effects of the ICE technology.
The Problem: Officers in Pain with back injury claims.
Law enforcement officers work an average of 12 hours per shift with 6 – 8 hours of that time either sitting in an office chair or a car seat. These officers are required to wear duty belts loaded with essential equipment. An officer typically has 12 –
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