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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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Mobility and power enable improved quality of life and economic development but current rural vehicle and power solutions in the developing world have either very limited utility or are too expensive to be broadly deployed.
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In a door to door mobility scenario the last mile is the most critical issue.
Public transportation must stop at selected terminals and private transportation not always have access. To solve the problem while in most localities, especially considering the need for parking as the biggest obstacle to an effective door to door direct flow.
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The "RoboGuts™ S.T.E.A.M. Education Program" can be used to teach the entire product manufacturing process + it can be completed at home with a small desktop 3D printer.
• Controlling various electronic devices,
1 With the development of the global economy, the prevention and control of atmospheric volatile organic compounds (VOCs) has become a serious challenge in the field of industry and power generation. The VOCs are bio-accumulative, carcinogenic, teratogenic, and mutagenic, which are important inducements that cause complex atmospheric pollution, induce haze, and photochemical smog.
The "I Jet" is a fully electric private plane that recharges itself using ion collectors to harvest electric energy from the atmosphere. These ion collectors situated on the top of the plane are carbon/graphite/graphene based. According to the proof of concept by the ion power group,
According to some emerging evidence published in the journal by scientists at Princeton University, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the US research agency, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) - though not in significant quantities, the Coronavirus can be airborne. Meaning,
HuPoTest is a mental test and training procedure as well. It was discovered incidentally in 1967 and developed continuously by testing face to face more than 1000 Persons Under Test (PUT). Basically, it is the calibration of the PUT mental timer by using a standard digital stopwatch. Personal timer, mentality and body health are strongly interconnected defining each other.
The proposed innovation is a sustainable, cost-effective and scalable flow battery that can store excess renewable energy in water (H2O) and table salt (NaCl). I have named this the BlueBattery. It is a combination of two well-established technologies: [1] Electrodialysis (ED), which uses electricity to desalinate water with the help of special ion-exchange membrane.
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