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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 was developed to reduce complications and deaths during intubation and enable medical providers around the world to afford the best technology. Intubation is the process of inserting a flexible plastic tube into the trachea to administer oxygen or anesthesia or support breathing due to severe injury or illness. This design provides a uniquely robust, feature-rich,
System for managing the route of unmanned aerial vehicles (RMS)
The proposed system aims to help ensure the safe movement of UAVs at infrastructure facilities where it is currently illegal for UAVs to fly, including airports.
Description of the RMS
Based on the system’s operating principle,
More than 1.35 million people face death issues every year due to road accidents all around the world. To be more precise an average of 414 valuable lives have been lost every day. India accounts for almost 11% of the accident-related deaths in the world. Surveys say that about 90% of these casualties take place in developed countries.
Hello everyone. I present you a project to recover technologies to be used for aerospace vehicles for land-moon transport and for trips within the solar system. Once we have the technical skills to proceed in space with an autonomous propulsion system we will have more chance of operating in deep space with confidence.
Boron fusion reactors fuse 2 atoms of Boron into a heavier element using high powered lasers and provide clean energy. This technology has been proven to be cost effective and produces a lot of energy.
The Concert Hands System (CHS) is the first to utilize Robotics and Haptic Technology to teach piano playing in a new and non-traditional way. The future of piano learning is here. Man and machine are now joined together to permit anyone regardless of musical talent or experience to play beautiful music in a matter of minutes.
The COVID-19 Crisis
Most efforts to come out of the COVID-19 crisis are related to vaccine or easing the symptoms. While these directions are actively pursued, many businesses are going down.
However, there is an alternative that can rid the world of the virus, perhaps faster and more effectively. The alternative is far-UVC radiation,
Southern California suffers from drought conditions and reservoirs are being reduced at rates greater than they are replenished. The Pacific Ocean borders the California coast but salt water is not acceptable for agriculture or consumption. My idea is to use renewable, "green" methods to produce fresh water from the ocean, primarily for agriculture.
Dig a series of wells,
A third-generation solar photovoltaic (PVT)and thermal panel was developed and patented. Its field tests have began both in the north Netherlands and Turkey to cover the entire climatic spectrum of Europe and other countries on the globe. This technology has the following attributes,
Analysis of Farm Data
Mapping of farms, acreage, yield with GPS-enabled sensors which would be used to receive data for the different stages of crop development during the entire growth cycle.
Identification of necessary inputs via AI-enabled platform
Using available literature, the received data would be translated into predictions for the
necessary fertilizer/water input requirements of the crop.
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