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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 aim of the project was to develop a hydro power plant for sustainable development. After going through the past and current prevailing scenarios, it was inferred that there were no sources of clean energy in the urban metropolitan today and one was desperately required.
After going through numerous case studies and studying the concepts of decentralization,
This project focuses primarily on the Sailfish Aerodynamics. The idea is to use the shape of the sailfish in a hybrid energy aircraft. The Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) is the fastest fish in the world with a speed of 68 mph (108.8 Km/h). Its body has a unique shape which is the lowest drag producing shape in nature.
This device is designed to be used at building sites for a range of cable installations, including Voice, Data, Security (CCTV) and Fire alarms, Cable TV as well as a range of [round] Electrical cables.
It is known that usually electric vehicles named trolleybuses can circulate on ways shared by general urban traffic, but that they will have to follow imperatively the trajectory imposed by their source of energy supply, a feeder usually named catenary (dual overhead line) system.
In response to the attack on our personal security (schools and all locations) Americans face a grave threat to human life here in the U.S., and around the world. I have designed a New Generation Long Range Radar Materials Detector. The Active Gun detection Unit (AGU-900) detects explosive and most materials at long range.
You will be shocked to know that-Globally 1.3 billion tonnes of food are wasted per year due to lack of proper processing.On the other hand, according to the head of the U.N. food agency 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition. So,
The problem in hand is large borders and areas that can't be monitored.
The idea will provide a way to get information in Terrorist Black Holes and borders that weren't covered with guard patrol and Satellites like deserts, mountains and national water.
Our first product is the LaparoTense, a minimally invasive diagnostic surgical tool that enables personalization of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstructions. The LaparoTense is unique in that it determines the final tension within the graft, which is the most critical factor for the success of the surgery, while staying consistent with the current laparoscopic surgical approach.
Babylon Effects(BE!) is a specialist in rooftop farming technologies with a focus on ready-to-use farming packages and consultancy services to its customers. The rooftop farming technology specially developed by BE! will enable a range of crops to be grown in poly-tunnel greenhouses connected to a closed-loop water and energy management system.
A laboratory chemical stays most of its lifetime on a shelf, in a closed container, which is opened when it is necessary to take out part of its contents. Generally, partial removal is carried out by pouring, if the chemical is a liquid or a powder, or by means of a spatula after having tilted the container,
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