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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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There are several million patients the world over suffering from End Stage Renal Failure (ESRD) with comparatively very few donor kidneys available for transplantation. Of those transplanted at least 10% a year fail; plus all the complications from lifelong immunosuppressive medications. Dialysis,
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The Solaris system is a novel, sustainable technology designed to address the global challenge of providing clean drinking water to underserved populations while reducing dependence on non-renewable energy resources. The system harnesses solar energy to generate hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), a powerful oxidizing agent, which is then used for water purification. Solaris is cost-effective,
For construction projects to be successful, building floors must be measured effectively and precisely. Traditional floor measurement techniques frequently take a long time, require a lot of labor, and are prone to mistakes, which increases expenses, delays, and rework. To solve these problems,
Using (Cold War ending Star Wars Strategic Defense Initiative technologies) research of: 1)superconductivity at room temperature, 2)Cold Welding, 3)nanograin metals, 4)high speed electroplating, 5)magnetic conducting insulation, 6)magnetic levitation bearing, and 7) direct drive; I propose to create with a national laboratory design group’s assistance layout, simulate, &
The “discovery by chance” of the Victor diamond mine location by a geology student during a fishing trip in the 1980s and subsequent research showing the “emptiness ” of the James Bay Wetlands suggests this entry promoting Air Cushion Technology to explore at ground level the potential of these Wetlands where Critical Minerals are concerned in or near the
Geopolymer term was given by Dr Joseph Davidovits from France in 1978 and created Geopolymer Institute. Geopolymers are a class of totally inorganic, alumino-silicate based ceramics that are charge balanced by group I oxides. These are rigid gels made at lower temperature and pressure into near-net dimension bodies mostly though Vibro-casting or ramming process.
The device is a dual mode engine for aircraft. Today's engines are either for flight within the atmosphere (turbo jet) or space (rockets) but not both. In the attached picture you will see a simple non-detailed cross section of a turbo jet engine. The illustration show the engine in turbo jet mode and rocket mode.
The Catch All Harvest Concept is a netting based harvest system.
The netting is placed under the harvested agricultural product and a container is placed under the net to gather fallen, ripe produce from the crop.
It is modular. It can be infinitely large (netting systems connected in a row) or placed under a single plant.
Balak Drishti (Child Vision)
Problem: There are 950M people around the world with myopia who cannot afford a simple pair of glasses. Out of these 239M are children whose families cannot afford to buy simple pair of glasses for their children. Today,
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