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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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Vehicle Distance Warning and Signaling System (DWSS) is an improved version of the Dynamic Traffic Light (DTL) bearing SAE paper No: 980560 presented and published in 1998. The traditional brake signal on the rear of vehicles provides insufficient information which only informs a following-vehicle (FV) that its lead-vehicle (LV) is braking.
What if we can help 60 million people who are displaced around the world be more comfortable? Refugee camps are getting bigger every year due to the instability of countries across the globe and people are fleeing to safety. People come to refugee camps because they have no other choice. The camps provide shelter, food, water, medical treatment, 
The 2018 California “campfire” wildfire caused more than $16 billion dollars of damage and took more than 85 lives thus exposing serious flaws in our electrical infrastructure. The fire was started when a simple piece of hardware called a “C hook” failed. The failure was reported to be caused by wear from cable movement (winds) over time.
A robot doesn’t get scared or tired. But people do, and it costs $80 billion per year in the construction industry. We make droids to perform difficult jobs, so people don’t have to. Unlike using an employment agency, Sally500 droids do not require benefits, insurance, or time off the clock. Instead, our clients will rent our droids per job,
PyrAmes provides wearable blood pressure monitoring devices that are non-invasive, continuous, comfortable, wireless, and easy-to-use to enable more timely and personalized treatment for patients of all ages.
Blood pressure (BP) is a critical biomarker for many medical conditions that affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people. For example,
The RepelWrap is a transparent and flexible plastic film that significantly repels liquid and microbial contaminations (viruses and bacteria) from surfaces, keeping them clean even under the most contaminating conditions. The RepelWrap is an omniphobic surface technology (a surface repelling a broad range of contaminants), which uses engineered hierarchical materials to transform commercially-available plastic wraps into repellent films.
Heat sinks work by conducting heat away from a source to fins that use convection, and their wide surface area to dissipate heat into the surrounding environment. The convective heat loss formula, Q=Hc*A*(T1-T2), shows that the surface area, A has a direct impact on the overall amount of heat that is transferred. Therefore,
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There are so many virus families in this world. Coronavirus and flu virus are among some of them. Peter Forster of Cambridge University proposed three types of new coronaviruses based on the genomic sequencing of the DNA. Type A existed in North America and is the oldest version. Type B found in Wuhan, China,
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