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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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This proposal is about rethinking how we transport people and goods in the future.
The idea, herein called RailCat, is a modular rail-based system that allows a non-stop smooth transportation flow between any departure and destination locations within the system.
ViBo Health is tackling the challenge of accurately tracking health conditions, wellness, fitness, nutrition, and recovery. Our first use case is pre-diabetes risk identification (“early warning”) and tracking. Our approach can be highly valuable for payers, including insurers and employee wellness programs. As a B2B2C,
Life is really hard for the visually impaired or blind individuals, to the extent that they are unable to see what's happening around them, including reading books or understanding Morse code. However, there are solutions available to address this situation and potentially help them regain some level of vision.
The issue of climate change and the European initiative "Fit for 55" are focusing on the goals of efficiency and decarbonization in the future of mobility. This has sparked a significant interest in hydrogen as an energy carrier due to its ability to generate energy with low pollutant emissions.
The Pnoi-phone is a novel device for evaluating variables in the Pulmonary Function Test (PFT) for the diagnosis and monitoring of asthma. The device uses microphones to capture breath sounds from the mouth and chest simultaneously. Then it uses data-driven algorithms to calculate PFT variables,
The IoT-based Plant Weaning System is an innovative solution designed to optimize plant care processes, specifically addressing the crucial phase of plant weaning. This system leverages the capabilities of the Internet of Things (IoT) to enhance efficiency, precision, and automation in plant cultivation. By integrating sensor technologies,
Dishwashers in their current state require preparing, loading, and unloading the dishes just to have a machine take care of some of the work. In a world of crazy technologies like neural implants, nanotech, and the colonization of Mars, it's about time AI handled the dishes.
SolarAir Cylinder (SAC) - Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Units - provide Clean MW Electricity Production
SAC is designed to cleanly, affordably and efficiently charge EV batteries on highways and in other locations.
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