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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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Carbon fibre reinforced polymer composites (CFRCs) possess properties that supersede their individual components and are being increasingly adopted in the aerospace industry. CFRCs have a complex structure that contributes to their unique properties but also makes them prone to an increased variety of damages such as fibre breakage, debonding, transverse-ply cracking, and delamination. 
Design Statement:
Design consists of the following main parts.
1. Electric Bike
2. Road Surface
3. Rail Track
The occurrence of wounds or deep injuries in patients located in very distant places, places in conflict or even, in outer space, where the transportation of the patient can be very complicated or it can take days to carry the patient to an attention place, generates risk for lives of people located in these places or circumstances.
Oasis on Mars
Natural disasters, wars-atom bombs, threaten human existence on earth. The only other planet in our solar system that offers suitable conditions for existence is Mars. The arms war is at it's peak. NASA, space research stations around the world and startup companies are already working enthusiastically to enable habitation in 2030 on Mars.
Ultra-lightweight vehicles are being developed to provide a number of high tech, long duration functions during flight. Applications including: military, weather, shipping, safety, commercial, border control, etc. applications. These vehicles typically are large, fragile, solar powered aircraft operating at between 50,000 and 90,000 feet for days to months timeframes.
Design Statement and Working:
A hanger ring for hanging clothes to dry with air draft has been mounted on support a bar that connects a ceiling fan to the roof.
Ring has round shape with ‘plus sign’
Able Innovations’ mission is to improve healthcare outcomes and people’s quality of life by developing innovative assistive technologies. Our first innovation is a transfer robot that can lift, move, and place humans in a fully automated manner with zero-physical effort from caregivers. Our innovation moves objects similarly to a standard conveyor belt,
Design Statement:
Design of this transport system consists of the following main parts.
1. Main vehicle/ engine with electric or fuel powered thrust engines, fold-able wings. To move or run the vehicle on road surface or track surface four powered wheels are there in the vehicle.
2. Frame to place the air-foiled shape cabin or bogies.
This approach describes a technique to be able to transfer large amounts of electrical energy from a stable platform to a high velocity moving vehicle in a near vacuum environment with no physical contact. In some of the new Hyperloop type transport systems,
For 30 years lean combustion has been known to lower NOx emissions and many programs outline its benefit and in its Tapps II Combusor final report submitted by GE for its GEnx Engine in 2013 it shows zero fractal components. If things are the same, a small but important change can be made.
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