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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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Vega camera, a tool for Skin detection
The device helps the detection of anomalies on the skin thru the combination of different filters, illumination and software operations, for analyzing images on the human skin.
Working principle:
The skin,
For over 35 years I have proposed the following "Free Lunch" solution to Climate Change and global warming to US and international "Movers and Shakers" without obtaining any responses or rebuttals.
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Electrosurgery uses Radio Frequency (RF) energy to cut and cauterize tissue in over 80% of all surgical procedures (41/51.4 million total US surgeries (2014)(1*) and 187/234.2 million worldwide (2008)(2*)). Electrosurgery generates smoke and aerosols that billow from the surgical wound, which have been tolerated as a nuisance. This smoke has been proven to contain, “
My suggestion is based on my universal AC-DC electric motor. Using this engine on the electric vehicles, we can reduce weight and improve car aerodynamics. Connecting the engine to the wheels-you can get two traction (wheel and aero). Also using this engine on the electric car can significantly improve its aerodynamics and passenger safety.
The overall goal of this design project is to develop a system that will decrease tyre-wear while improving fuel economy, performance and safety of a passenger vehicle through dynamically adjustable tyre pressures. The system serves to solve a fairly common problem of improperly inflated tyres, which also are the cause of many road accidents,
Sky Train Corporation (STC) has modeled, evaluated, calculated, and patented a Rail Transit and Alternative Energy System that improves security and increases capacity over rail on the ground. It allows freight to be the revenue source and adds passengers and stations for added profit or convenience, thereby gaining quick funding.
Elevated beams improve speed and comfort, combining faster,
Photophobia, light sensitivity or intolerance for light, may turn into a challenge for many people, more so with people who suffer from astigmatism or any problem that affects refraction will have a high sensibility to light; this can affect the capability to view the details of the environment. Research has documented around 150 million people with light refraction problems,
The purpose of this invention is to automatically stabilize a two wheeled motorbike or scooter as it starts off, comes to a stop or is parked. The rider does not have to remove his/her feet from the foot rests as he/she approaches traffic lights or stops to park the bike,
An idea of embedding RFID tags on tactile paving as indoor positioning system to tell current location, direction and distance to destination through mobile app for visually impaired is proposed.
Tactile paving, a footpath with distinctive surface pattern, assists visually impaired people to walk and stop safely. Yet, it doesn’t tell which direction the path goes. For example,
Most of the time whenever any tube comes to end we generally use any heavy object to squeeze out the remaining and no doubt the process of it is very lengthy and sometimes difficult in various circumstances.
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