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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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The Intelligent Symptom Tracker is a novel telehealth monitoring application that addresses the challenge of comprehensive symptom tracking and analysis. By integrating user-reported data with real-time biometrics from wearable devices, the system employs advanced algorithms to identify symptom patterns and correlations. The app's core features include daily symptom logging, automated data collection, pattern recognition,
Automatic Waste Segregation Bin
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Managing municipal solid waste is a critical global issue exacerbated by increasing waste production and the urgent need for sustainable practices. Traditional methods of manual waste segregation are plagued by inefficiencies, high costs, and significant environmental hazards.
A device that collects energy from lightning, this device collects energy from a lot of lightning in the autumn and winter seasons, and reduces the high voltage from heating devices in this season. As a result of mutual attraction of negative and positive charges, lightning strikes the device's energy-receiving antenna, and the device absorbs its energy.
In order to lessen the negative effects of industrial processes on the environment, waste reduction and recycling of manufactured slag are essential elements of sustainable manufacturing. Slag is a byproduct that is produced when metals are smelted. It is mainly produced when metal is separated from its ore. Slag is sometimes considered waste,
We have developed an innovative ore secure helmet designed to significantly enhance safety in mining environments. This helmet is engineered to prevent accidents caused by hazardous gases and rock collisions, which are common risks faced by miners.
This project presents a comprehensive system for predicting retinal diseases from fundus images using deep learning, particularly the InceptionV3 model, fine-tuned on a curated dataset. It also evaluates the risk of heart failure based on specific retinal disease predictions. Implemented as a Flask web application,
This research presents a novel approach to small-scale hydroelectric power generation, employing the Chalasani Turbine within a closed-loop water circulation system. The proposed methodology aims to address the increasing demand for sustainable and decentralized energy solutions in villages, towns, and industrial settings, where traditional hydropower installations may be impractical or unfeasible.
The Chalasani Turbine,
Waterlogging incidents that can be fatal to vehicle and passenger safety have grown more frequent and severe as a result of urbanization, climate change. The AquaGuard project will be responsible for creating a new type of safety system that aims to protect vehicles and their occupants in enclosed waterlogged spaces. AquaGuard is powered by cutting-edge sensors,
Camera and light may have difficulty navigating event places due to cultural and obstruction to participants. The use of hybrid meetings has also been a norm since the eventful occurrence of COVID-19 that necessitated restrictions to physical movements. Economic stresses have, moreover, reduced our ability to travel.
PROBLEMS: Launching into space is too expensive because rocket boosters are still used for the 1st stage (boost stage) of launch, in which the rocket engines must burn extra tremendous amounts of propellants to overcome gravity and air drag inside the atmosphere. In a 2018 interview with CNBC,
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