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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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Retired wind turbines routinely end up in the waste stream. Current efforts to divert the trash towards other uses include creating playground structures, or grinding the composite materials into pellets to reuse as aggregate in future composite structures.
Although creating play structures for kids is a noble and highly visible goal, there is a very limited market for that.
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In the United States alone people waste $73 billion every year to look for a parking spot. In Germany on an average one driver spends 48 hours every year searching for parking. This is just the waste of gasoline and diesel in terms of money. Now think about the CO2 produced by this extra usage of fuel.
Today, bacteria are found at every step. And humans continue to be carriers of bacteria. Adherence to cleanliness will help prevent disease. With the help of a door disinfection device, we prevent the spread of bacteria. We prevent the spread of bacteria by installing the device on the main doors of public places, offices and dining areas.
The project we introduced is actually a multitasking RecotaK2510 that can do all types of tasks easily and quickly .This RecotaK2510 design will enable it to go on Mars and the moon also. In this project we installed a solar plate that can charge a battery long lasting and not about die so we can use endlessly.
An aviation design that was overlooked for decades is now the rage with the latest in fighters, stealth and UAV fighter escort fuselages. These can carry more passengers, cargo, fuel, instruments and/or weapons and do some of the lifting of the craft and load as well.
How my entry works, what makes it novel, how it would be produced, and where it would be applied.
The problem with homelessness in Canada is that we provide the same resources to all homeless people.
In today's world we need an Airport Disease Scanner.
As we already are facing a pandemic we need this type of technology to prevent a future pandemic. Airport Disease Scanner in which we scan humans on airports for viruses DNA basically this detect viruses DNA in a human body.
This innovative bed is fully equipped with all the necessary equipment required for the cure of any any person facing mild to mid level Coronavirus. This solution is best defined by its space saving design which contains -
A wheelchair for the proper and fast propagation of the patient from one place to another.
The innovation introduces a 48Volts Mild Hybrid Transmission System (the System). Unlike other mild hybrid configurations, known in the prior art, which only enable the administration of TORQUE available from the hybrid set (e.g., internal combustion engine (ICE) and electric machine (EM)), this new mechanism allows TORQUE and RPM to be managed,
This device will issue an audible message when people are ascending stairs. Its purpose is to alert people to the safety of using the hand rail and watching their steps when going up or down stairs. There are thousands of accidents on stairs in the US every year.
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