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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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Due to lots of reason like roadways problems, people in terrain area, small low populated village, they don’t have proper healthcare solution. For that type of people, we provide a solution for them and that will definitely help for them to get correct treatment with doctor diagnosis. It also used army base when doctor is not available.
The proposed handicraft solution for BRICO-UPT face shield is addressed to all those who want to improve their level of health protection during the exercise of their professional tasks (personnel at risk, in contact with the public: medical staff, from commerce, administration, e.a.), especially for those wearing glasses,
It is a color changing drone which uses the color changing properties like frog and cuttlefish which can change their color according to the environment with the help of their several pigmented skin layer which absorbs the light and reflect the only color which they want like that this drone have several layers which can absorb the light and
In modern physics, it is axiomatic that Entropy does not decrease automatically. For example, when two rooms of equal temperature are connected to each other, the temperature in one room will NOT automatically be higher than the temperature in the other room.
However, Mr. Richard Phillips Feynman, a famous genius scientist,
Recently, mobile plays important role into our life; In fact, youngsters can’t live without mobile. It has made our life connected but the major issue regarding this technology is insufficient charging. 4000 mAh battery also can’t last longer than a day due to increased use of phone. To solve this issue, I would like to develop a portable charger.
The estimated number of people visually impaired in the world is 285 million[1], which incapacitates them from activities like reading, writing, navigating, etc. The majority of the people belonging to developing countries are living on less than $1.25 per day so it’s almost impossible for the parents belonging to developing countries to educate their visually impaired children [2],
Currently, by recovering the energy of the exhaust gases the advanced Internal Combustion Engines used in car racing have already managed to reach over 50% total effective efficiency (equal with fuel cell efficiency). However, in order to achieve this level of efficiency the engines have to use an external recovery system attached to the engine block.
Imagine a large airliner or military transport that could take off at 100 mph or even less,
The idea is for a key organizer. I have been always frustrated by the rattling keys with no identification for which key for which door. I made this design for a key organizer with 42 mm diameter and 80 mm height.
The key organizer holds up to 14 keys (13 normal keys + car key).
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