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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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DOWSIL™ TC-4060 represents a step change in thermal management in automotive electronics, especially important in electric vehicles. Newer power electronics mandates improved efficiency, long-life and safety.
The home-use diagnostic pad enables women to specifically and personally follow their own feminine discharges for changes and progressions in physiologic conditions. The pad constitutes an AI-empowered early detection platform for at-home monitoring of cancerous biomarkers detection in feminine discharges. The system enables the women to establish an individual baseline,
Sort the parking, precisely, on public streets without signage. Giving place both front and back to vehicles, already parked.
Autonomously, without need of the driver or the vehicle on, for this purpose. Put on notice the driver, who comes in motion, with a visual signal (LED light), which reaches the minimum allowed distance, distance that can be modified,
Coatings with a pseudo-alloy structure are a separate type of composite coatings. They consist of materials that do not form solid solutions and compounds in the liquid and solid states (differing in melting temperatures and not fusing with each other). Owing to the absence of interaction between these materials in a wide range of concentrations and temperatures,
Formed by a set of two elements coupled to each other, to generate autonomous energy, finding between each other the equation; of the set of running without any type of component, even if it was wind or what already exists,
This product is a kind of personal protection equipment. UV torch contains both UV-A and UV-C LED inside. UV-C Light for disinfecting the surfaces from bacteria and most viruses. UV-A light is used to detect bacteria from surfaces.
"Kind Nanny" - this project was created for smart cities and public places to help easily find lost children! Babysitting not only helps find children, she advertises and pets that are lost or left to the mercy of fate! The babysitter picks up the sound of sobbing children and takes pictures on the camera,
A compact vehicle door protector and Bullet-proof Auto Shield that protects any type of vehicle such as but not limited to a car, truck, sports utility vehicle, van, aircraft, which is easy and quick to install, and removable from vehicle, folded and stored away compactly before and after use, and more importantly serves as an auto door shield,
Initially designed for the automotive industry, the Cordless Box Wrench was developed to gain access to hard-to-reach fasteners, and reduce the amount of time needed to complete repair jobs and projects. However, it has been found that this tool is more utilitarian, and can be used on home projects, or wherever a box wrench may be needed. 
The current braking system solely relies on the friction of tires. Fatal accidents on roads happen when the brake system fails to generate enough friction. In other words, the resultant force wasn’t strong enough to resist the momentum of a car.
The friction, unlike the shock damping,
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