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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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Pediatric trauma represents a leading cause of children's mortality and disability worldwide, killing over one million children each year. Current education programs rely on expensive simulated courses. Therefore, they fail to train health providers on a large scale leaving inadequate training and the inability to provide the best care for injured children, increasing morbidity and mortality.
A space based system to accelerate or de-accelerate a spacecraft in space, said system comprising: one or more sections of magnetic coils configured as a conduit with a flightpath therethrough for the spacecraft,
My idea is an emergency parachute for Paragliders(PG) with a variety of electronic sensors and AI based, data processing CPU which is responsible to recognize dangerous situations automatically in the air and additionally a remote controlled trigger for SIV-Courses and PG school trainings.
It has happened that PG Pilots got disoriented,
This is a proposal to use a water wheel floating on a river to generate clean electrical energy. Unlike solar and wind generators, rivers flow 24 hours a day.
A water wheel can be scaled up or down. The surface speed of rivers varies between about 3-8 MPH. Floating water wheels are typically 25-45% efficient,
This describes an efficient water heater that uses microwave radiation to heat a coiled water pipe. The radiation is contained in a metal cavity, painted inside with microwave-reflective paint, similar to that used in home microwave cooking ovens, and on stealth aircraft.
The objective of this project is to maximize the efficiency of LED flashlights. A 60° field-of-illumination LED is positioned just below the barrel, and is aimed at the off-axis parabola, which reflects all of the light in a focused beam. No light is wasted. If desired,
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A depth thread plug gauge is a device that can measure the size of the thread and the depth of the thread, both in a single go. Conventionally, to measure the depth of a thread, external instrumentation is required which consumes extra time.
ATOM-1.0 Humanoid Robot Project:
It is important in today’s modern age of technology to have pioneers push forward to reach greater achievements. The pioneer must have a vision, determination and not be easily discouraged by lack of project funding or criticism. Without great thinkers whose vision was before their time, where would our current technology stand.
Classic Rocket Propulsion may be defined as the application of force that initiates or changes the motion of a rocket based on Newtonian action-reaction principles. This method is primitive, potentially dangerous, and has limited range due to fuel requirements. It is also very slow, far too slow for interstellar travel and barely fast enough for interplanetary travel.
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