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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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Problem Statement: The solar industry struggles with the inefficiency and suboptimal performance of solar panels due to the accumulation of dust, dirt, and debris. The current manual cleaning methods used for solar panel maintenance are time-consuming, costly, and potentially risky for workers. These methods often result in inconsistent cleaning coverage,
I would like to nominate the F-35B Lift Fan System for the Create the Future Award in the category of Aerospace and Defense, in recognition of its breakthrough design and significant contribution to the aviation industry.
The F-35B Lift Fan System represents a remarkable leap forward in vertical lift capabilities, transforming the way modern military aircraft operate.
PREPchain *reverses* the large-scale climate impacts of blockchain technology, while making blockchain more secure & decentralized! In this network, block sealing capacity is proportional not to energy burned or economic resources posted, but electricity produced from renewable sources.
In a blockchain network using Proof of Work (PoW) like Bitcoin,
The quest for manufacturing green hydrogen fuel has gained increased urgency. Currently, the primary method of producing green hydrogen is electrolysis of water. As a water source, seawater offers many advantages over fresh-water, including its electrical conductivity much higher than that of fresh-water. Moreover, unlike fresh-water being considerably limited,
As the world’s first hybrid fluoroscopic C-arm and mobile X-Ray system in one, FUJIFILM’s FDR Cross is a truly novel solution. The system offers both live fluoroscopic and static radiographic image capture for pre-, intra- and post-operative imaging and other minimally invasive procedures in a single platform.
Oil spillage is occurring quite often in water bodies such as sea, lake, rivers etc. Once oil spillage takes place, the process of oil collection and removing from water surface is extremely tedious since oil quick spreads over water surface.
The conceptual (for now) Vascular Cartographic Scanning Nanodevice (VCSN) would be manifest as an advanced autonomous, ~Ø1 μm nanomedical device applied for the ultrahigh resolution scanning/imaging of the entire vascular system in vivo, down to capillary level (~3 μm). The technology required to fabricate the VCSN (molecular manufacturing -MM) does not exist as yet,
A reactionless drive is a device that produces motion without the ejection of a propellant. This is supposedly in violation of Newton's third law of motion, which states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Reactionless Drives produce indefinite lifetimes for satellites, dependent on the lifetime of capacitors and solar panels.
One of the main factors affecting the cost of running broiler chicken farms is the labor cost. Automation systems can eliminate this cost helping farmers increase their profit margins. However, the currently existing system of using screw conveyors has a few disadvantages.
The module was proposed to stop incorrect fluid from entering the petrol tank and also to measure the proper quantity of the fuel filled. The module is planned to be in compact size that could fit in the tank. The sensors and the other electrical connections have dedicated sections to prevent any fire accidents.
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