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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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A four wheel drive vehicle with an electric motor in each wheel that drives the car. Each person has a set of pedals that are connected to a generator that charges the batteries. The outside of the vehicle is covered with see through solar panel that help charge the batteries. Two or four person cars. Two, four,
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Haul-e addresses the urgent need for sustainable electrification in the trucking industry, which has a significant carbon footprint. In India, road transport handles 60% of freight traffic, making the decarbonization of trucks, crucial. While electric trucks are a promising alternative, they face challenges like high battery costs, weight, low range, charging times, and battery recycling issues.
The Neuraminidase Cleavage Scanner (NCS) is a device that use a technique of a matrix of thousands of Micro Ultraviolet Spectrometers to perform a counting of occurrences of specific shifts or changes, or sequence of changes in the abortion spectrum of each spectrometer pointing to a reactive sample, in order to determine the probability Neuroaminidase is being split,
There are many people who want to lose weight, such as older adults aged 50-60 and young mothers who gain weight due to a sedentary lifestyle or hormonal changes.
All these individuals desire to lose weight and have a healthy body, but unfortunately, they don't have the opportunity to go to the gym for various reasons.
Reducing vehicle weight has been one of the hardest challenges for auto manufacturers to address, as the demand for increased comfort, safety, connectivity, interactivity, and natural/sustainable materials all to add vehicle curb weight, and high-performance lightweight materials are typically expensive, produce volumes too low for mass adoption, and often increase waste headed to our landfills.
Raintowers & Cloudships work together to prevent /combat wildfires, aid firefighters, save lives, fight drought, floods, famine, disease, replenish/protect water supply, aid farmers, relieve global suffering.
Reimagining water towers as strategically placed Raintowers equipped millions of gallons/water, UV sensors, GPS,
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The soft robotic jellyfish stands out due to its bioinspired design, mimicking the natural propulsion mechanisms of real jellyfish. This design utilizes submersible impellor pumps connected to each hydraulic network actuator group within the jellyfish, creating an efficient and novel propulsion system.
Elderly people are falling more frequently worldwide, especially those who are 60 years of age and beyond. One major factor that contributes to these falls is the lack of routine supervision provided to older individuals living alone. Many claims are made for injuries sustained by older people when they fall, and occasionally these accidents are deadly. Thus,
To segment/detect/recognize dents/scratches from images of cars. The dataset contains car images with one or more damaged parts.
Detectron 2 is a next-generation open-source object detection system from Facebook AI Research.
Powercast’s engineers have designed innovative technology - Wireless 25-Year Maintenance-Free Building Automation Sensor and Controller Technology for use in HVAC and Lighting Systems – intended to 1) save companies substantial energy, 2) cost 40% less than wired systems, 3) eliminate expensive and inconvenient battery maintenance and 4) reduce battery e-waste that litters landfills.
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