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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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My project is called Anti-Explosion Tire System (AETS) . The AETS is a system for preventing tires from exploding while driving cars and hence saving the lives of passengers and drivers. AETS consists of 2 components.
Problem Description:
To avoid major road accidents on highways at night due to the breakdown or repair of heavy motor vehicles.
Abstract:
A vehicular Adhoc network plays a very important role in research for the past ten years for the safe and comfortable travel of passengers. Most of the people on the roads have struggled with major accidents,
A pen-sized smartphone equipped with a stick out rollable touch screen system may revolutionize the entire way that we communicate and utilize our multimedia devices (smartphone, tablets, pc etc). This could be the killer app of the next future.
Properly adapted to an ear-mounted multifunctional device (micro, speaker. cam, display),
The idea of reaching up to the heavens has captivated several generations. For this challenge, rockets have shown to be extremely inefficient, and the idea of constructing a “Centrifugally Extended Carbon Nano-Tube Tether Space Elevator” (CECNTTSE) presents unsolved technological challenges. We conclude that; to efficiently achieve the goal of unrestricted movement away from Earth’s gravitational pull,
The present invention relates to an expander for the lower part of the body which expander can be easily used at home and other places by anybody for straightening the lumbar to prevent lower back pains and strengthening the leg and abdomen muscles.
The same applies to health equipment for preventing lower back pains such as lumbago.
This design is a four rotor internal combustion engine. It rotates a single shaft which transfers the engine power to the clutch/transmission. The purpose of this engine design is to build a simple and efficient engine.
The inspiration to this design came when I learned that the Wankel rotary design will no longer be used by the automotive industry.
The objective of this project is to understand, manipulate and enhance the dexterity of a robotic hand, and its controlling by various methods (in our case, a potentiometer fitted Exoskeleton Glove).
Our project may be a useful alternative for people who have lost their arm. The output from their sensory nerves may be tapped,
The project is specifically designed and fabricated for the convenience of physically challenged people who are disabled by their legs.
As in this date there are many options for transportation available for physically challenged persons like, Motorised wheel chair, Hand powered tri-cycle, Scooters..
Conventional Overbalanced Wheels that are famous for perpetual motion machine do not rotate. Now, I disclose new Machine. Figure 1 shows new Perpetual Motion Machine that generates rotational energy by using a Capillary and a Wheel including a Sponge and Weights.
The Capillary shown in figure is made with a microfiber or a capillary tube.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:
NoireNaturals LLC is a completely all-natural line of hair care products, designed to cater to the unique needs of kinky, curly, and wavy hair. The goal of this product line is to help ease the anxiety and challenges that come along with maintaining textured hair types, using high-quality materials.
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