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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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The Water Wonder Discoverer is an optimised development of our 2014 Australian Mining Prospect Award WIN in innovative mining solutions with a 3D down-the-hole high water pressure drilling/cutting technology.
The initial package is an environmentally better alternative to extract shale oil and gas without fracking. The same technology can have input in heat pumps,
A fabricated band, tightens around crown of head on one end, and suspends overhead from hook, on other end. Suspending your entire body, stretching your spine, and strengthening your neck muscles, while totally relaxing, is the novelty of this invention. It would be applied at home, a health care center, or gymnasium anywhere.
With the previous experience I had regarding about this contest with a new concept by keeping in mind that "Design is a Continuous Process of Concentration in which each step has to be worked through carefully to the end.”
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The BMW ActiveCity is a small electric premium vehicle for the year 2025. Having the body shape of a compact 3 door hatchback, this vehicle offers private means of future transportation through crowded cities in an economical, refreshing, and fun way.
Problem: For all rotary wing devices, propellers, helicopter rotors, wind turbines, etc., there is an optimum twist to the blade for a given flow of air through the rotor disc. In most cases, the chosen twist is not optimum, and further, the use of rigid blades means that in variable flow conditions, gusts, the lift is not uniform.
"The arc shelf" is a curved shelf that eliminates the time-consuming hassle of folding pullovers - t-shirts, sweaters and sweatshirts - especially long sleeve garments. Instead of folding a user just drapes the garment over the curved shelf. To allow multiple shelves to be used above or under each other or any obstruction (e.g., hanging clothes),
The mobility area is changing.
Last mind-set and environmental evolutions gave us the opportunity to develop new technologies that will help preserving the earth and master natural resources’ consumption.
In one hand, key topics are pollution and noise aspect. On the other hand, motorbike pilot is looking for SENSATION and PLEASURE,
Honeybee Nano Bubbles® are designed to function as an all-natural dietary replacement for table sugar and artificial chemical sweeteners, such as powdered chemical compounds. The Honeybee Nano Bubbles® are produced using a 'NASA Spinoff' microencapsulation instrument and technology developed by Dr. Joseph A. Resnick for RMANNCO, Inc. of Lenoir, NC.
Concept of a motorcycles for everyone, to go everywhere!
Is based on simply ideas, the ergonomic triangle lets everybody take good feeling whit the bike, ensuring whit a low and confortable sitting that even women will love the ride position.
But the motorcycles specifics comes by a motocross chassis, the result is something pretty cool and funny,
A chest tube is a flexible catheter frequently used in pre/post-operative setting, which is inserted into the chest cavity to evacuate air (pneumothorax) or fluids (blood, effusion, chyle or pus). There are more than one million chest tubes placed annually in the United States (1) and many more worldwide (it is the most common intervention in thoracic trauma).
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