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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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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.
Firearms are very dangerous and I hope you don’t have to use them in your lifetime but history has taught us that people always find a reason to go to war to the end of time. This project is neither promoting firearm use nor discouraging it but protecting the environment whenever/ wherever/ however you use it.
Can you bear your near and dear one suffering from some illness which has progressed to irreversible stage but could have been cured if it was detected earlier?
Nobody can and nobody wishes so.
Unfortunately this is something that is happening to more than 12 million families annually worldwide.
Culprit being late diagnosis of cancer.
The latest foldable display provides a larger screen in less space for a more vivid immersion experience. In these devices, non-metallic materials such as organic foam films (polyurethane, polyether) or high filler-loaded silicone rubber are applied around the metal hinge frame and in other important areas to prevent cracking in the bendable area. However,
Internal combustion engines are ubiquitous machines powering the global economy. They are employed in commercial vehicles, trucks (off/on-road), marine propulsion, aircraft, and power generation. Engine manufacturers worldwide are under constant pressure from governments to improve fuel efficiency and decrease greenhouse gas emissions. Currently, the average efficiency of internal combustion engines is 40%.
The world produces about 380 million tons of plastic annually and less than 25% is recycled. Most of these plastics end up in our landfills, rivers and oceans. Dumping plastics in landfills leads to land degradation and the methane produced is a greenhouse gas 35 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a 20 year period.
This design is a convenient and low cast transport means. It is powered by electricity and no carbon emission. Reference Figure 1, this design comprises one wheel with a hub motor, one operating-pedal, one fixed-pedal, one seat, one telescopic handle, battery pack and electrocircuit.
This design comes from one of our inventions, patent-pending,
Advances in technology and environmental concerns will precipitate major changes in how public transit will deliver services in the coming years. Advances, including AI-assisted scheduling software, self-driving systems, and perhaps most important of all, multi-passenger Uber/Lyft-like software coming on stream,
Many types of railings/guard rails are shown beside the hilly road but that cannot always save cars from falling from a hilly road. Many times a car has fallen by crossing or braking the guard. But it is not possible to increase the height of the railing by the present system,
With the targeting of specialization technologies in materials for automotive purposes, within the innovations invisible to the consumer market, we observe the state of the art in cylinder liners for internal combustion engines (MCI's) in cast iron, aluminum or ceramic coated. For Diesel MCI's,
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