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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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“WOODSTOCK CO2”
One of the possible ways trying to solve the present global temperature rising problem would be, as proposed by the Musk Foundation XPrize, a CO2 removal at an increasing rate up to attain one Gigaton/year scale by 2050, and to achieve this, to stock wood for at least hundred years into closed green concrete silos (Fig.1),
For helicopters, the development of a floor lining made of a sandwich micro-lattice structure holds the potential to greatly improve the safety of passengers and crew during an unfortunate turn of events like a crash landing. These crashes can be cataclysmic and sometimes fatal.
Our solar thermal absorption cooling system is an innovative, eco-friendly and low-cost solution that uses the sun's heat to cool buildings and provide domestic hot water, offering enhanced efficiency in hotter weather and catering to the needs of disadvantaged and low-income communities for a more equitable and sustainable future.
UnOrthoDOKS is a knee brace and a resistance band combined. As a knee brace it supports knee muscles by providing dynamic power-assist in everyday activities like walking, standing, sitting etc. As a resistance band it strengthens knee muscles by providing dynamic resistance in resistance training exercises like squats, leg raises etc.
Vertistations will support the Advanced Air Mobility industry which Morgan Stanley states is a $1 trillion opportunity. Deloitte described vertistations in a future of mobility paper. SkyStations was an MBA capstone project based around vertistations adapted from a convenience store, with the addition of electric vehicle chargers and elevated vertiports.
This concept is to add a series of 4 or 5 miniature wind turbines captured within an aerodynamic designed housing located at the top of a windshield on EV applications. The concept is to utilize the wind velocity flowing up from the windshield to accelerate the air flow through the turbines. In addition,
I intend to make use of the NFC Technology to create a Digital Portable Patient Folder (DPPF) which will contain the Basic Health Data about a patient that is immediately needed when the patient visits a service provider.
Introducing M-1: Revolutionizing Personal Maglev Transportation
Transportation problems are complex, and the growing population presents a huge market. The global transportation industry is projected to grow from 8.2 to 13.64 billion dollars between 2022 and 2030. This demonstrates the increasing demand for mobility.
Today, the supply of non-renewable energy is running out. As a result, we must use renewable energy sources. The best renewable energy source is solar energy. Solar power can be used to get them. However, dust and grit buildup on solar panels reduces their effectiveness. We use automatic solar panel cleaners for this reason,
Simply put, electric vehicles do not drive as far on a single charge as their ICE counterparts do on a single tank of gas. This forces EV makers to spend more on charging infrastructure and battery capacity causing EVs to become too expensive for most.Vehicle subsystems like the suspension damper are inherently inefficient,
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