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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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The current enclosure of the prototype antenna is somewhat brittle. Replacing the "tube" with Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene would make for a much stronger and more reliable enclosure. According to US Plastics of Lima, Ohio, USA; as long as you use virgin UHMW PE, it is transparent to all EM frequencies.
withINSPIRED is a line of personalized clothing that has inspirational words or phrases printed on the inside of the shirt. This is a little out of the box for this contest, but we thought it was worth entering because inspiration for designs, inventions and dreams can start with a small spark that evolves into a life changing concept.
We are all worried that we are putting too much CO2 into the air and warming the planet. Unfortunately almost all of our waste handling systems concentrate on rotting, burning, and fragmenting a lot of hydrocarbon based products, which will put even more CO2 into the air.
We need to redeploy the human workforce for sustainability.
Current drone flight approval and evaluation is frustrating both for authorities and drone operators as well. Every single flight plan consumes roughly 40 man hours to the authorities and spans within a week or two limiting scalability. In the future where 30,000 flights are expected only above Sofia this process is more than archaic.
The portable oxygen concentrator is a great technology, blessing thousands with the opportunity to remain active and functional with their breathing disease. However, as a user requiring 24/7 oxygen, I can attest that these devices are far from perfect. I have tripped on the oxygen cannula tubing and broken my shoulder.
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The present study is based on the growing need to seek alternative water supply sources, taking into account the increase in consumption and the scarcity of drinking water that affects several regions of the world. For this purpose, a portable reverse osmosis desalination model was designed in order to meet the treatment of brackish water.
"Scientists investigate that which already is; engineers create that which has never been. - Albert Einstein.
Einstein relative energy: "When a vehicle is in motion the wind sheer passing by the vehicle can be converted to torque and on to wild AC".
This is a concept for a non-stick car seat "horn" to help get in and out of a car. After a lengthy hospital stay, my mobility was impaired. When I got into my car or any car, my clothes would stick to the seat fabric. I didn't have enough energy to twist around and get into place.
ROSINA (RObotic System for INtubAtion) is a robotic system to guide the introduction of a fiberscope into the airways of a patient, avoiding damage and in the meantime separating the doctor from the patient, useful in the pandemic period.
It is composed by a small console placed on a wheeled stand,
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