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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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In the new world business model, it has become not very profitable to produce a product in a single business. For this reason, no matter how many parts a product consists of, it will be the most profitable to divide the product into main parts groups and make it salable in the final assembly or production phase.
Prop It! Doorstop is a game changing doorstop that can be placed anywhere between the door and doorjamb (in the door) to keep a door propped open at 90 degrees. It does not require placement on top of the door hinge, like many other doorstops. Prop It! Doorstop is versatile in that it can be placed in the door,
Every year, more and more new technologies appear and make life easier for a person, without forcing him to spend his time or effort on work. My project is called "Smart Table." I decided to create a multifunctional table. This idea came to me when I realized that it was good to have everything at hand.
Requirements for the Mo
The Mo was designed specifically as a lightweight yet sturdy solution to give people with a disability “Mo”-re enhanced ability to access area’s they have not been able to previously.
Requirements for the Avatar
The Avatar was designed specifically as a lightweight holiday or island vehicle with no CO2 output.
Create a returnable plastics lottery system where reverse vending machines are used as "slot machines" () and where any (authorized) plastic item could be deposited and where only very occasionally would the depositor win a (relatively) large dollar amount prize.
[Problem this design idea solves...]
The amount of time to presently charge a battery electric vehicle (EV) at home is numerous hours. Using a public, high-powered, fast charger takes much more time compared to filling up the tank with gasoline or diesel. For example,
A record of successful treatments for illnesses as reference for medical professionals and the public, in general, this universal document is accessible by the public at no cost with information uploaded by physicians and or patients themselves describing their symptoms and the successful treatment for the condition.
I present the concept of a laser pumped with electron beams from carbon nanotubes in the process of field emission of electrons. Today, commercial lasers are mainly pumped optically, for example, by coupling to laser diodes or by applying an electrical voltage, such as in laser diodes.
PROBLEM:
Free-space optical systems are generally used for "last mile" communication and can operate at distances of several kilometers long as long as there is a clear line of sight between the sender and receiver, and the optical receiver can decode the signal of the information transmitted. IrDA is an example of short distance,
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