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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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Purpose: To provide a more comfortable ergonomic charter for scheduled routes for short and medium distances.
Audace’s bold external features include new windshields, LED turn signals, and clearance lights. Bonded glass panes provide extended visibility in the windshields, head lights, and tail lights. The new LED full width back lights along with exclusive markers solve safety concerns for turn signals,
The goal of this project is to build and test a kite powered electrical generator. Kites are being deployed successfully for powering large ships weighing 440 tons over long haul distances of nearly 12,000 miles.
In parallel with the advantages that the NFC functionality of credit cards offers to the customers, some weak points, which can be used by criminal subjects for money (information) theft, exist. In the crowds, trams, trains, queues..etc., criminals can easily, simply holding their NFC devices close to the wallet (pocket, bag) of the offer,
This device is for the transmission of energy to the electrical system of the body via wireless inductive coupling. It is designed to serve in several capacities:
1. A source of stable amplitude on a particular vector to neuronal tissues of the body without surgical invasion.
As people are paying more and more attention on green and renewable energy sources for the purpose of transportation and mobility, I design this concept vessel using wave energy which is collected by a set of unique "antennae."
The vessel is designed to be unmanned, small size and low speed. The shape is streamlined,
I propose to airlift two small wind turbines to a height (550 meters) utilizing a towed auto-gyro and keep it aloft by means of a tether to the ground. Because the wind is both consistent and steady at altitudes above 500 meters, both the auto-gyro and the generator will remain aloft indefinitely.
Electromagnetic screwdriver:
Ratcheting screwdriver that can turn on and off its holding power
What problem does your design idea solve?
The ability to keep your magnetic screwdriver from picking up unwanted metal items.
What are the potential benefits?
Free Space Controller:
Three-button input and cursor navigation all in a hand held device.
Do not need a “work surface” for arms or input device
What problem does your design idea solve?
No need for work surface, begin introduction to an innovative form of human input of data
Antonymous Robot Computer is a computer network setup to control ARC vehicles. ARC System the Air System Data Mainframe (ASDM) or ARC Network which the FAA will provide and a Quad copter style ARC Cars. Some older cars can be retrofitted for the software upgrades,
Technologies based on microbially-catalyzed reactions are cost-effective for managing waste at a large scale. 125 million dry tons of pig waste is produced globally every year. Pig waste has high concentrations of organic carbon and nutrients like nitrogen that, when discharged to the environment, can lead to surface water eutrophication,
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