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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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Internal combustion engines are powerful in automotive applications because of the fuels and technology but the present situation changed globally because of carbon emissions. And the change au motives are moved towards the electrical vehicles and the concepts of BMS,
• IDEA SOLUTION:
[IoT BASED] MOBILE & FIXED, AUTO & INSTANT, SILENT-ENGINED MICRONIZER MACHINE-BINS FOR ALL PLASTICS EG PUSHABLE/TOWABLE-CONTAINER-BINS, IN MOBILE TRUCK BINS etc instantly powdering all plastic types
•Tagline: cleaners & instant powdering plastics
HOW THE PRODUCT WORKS:
Switch [ON] the power button, so that as you deposit/put your waste plastic-material
How DSG technology, combined with direct fuel injection, can increase repair time technology to be used in the military sector, as high fuel pressure by hostile nations and cultural ideological bias to the West, or foment arms race.
Yellow axis of the attached photo requested in wind turbines of superpowers or powers with military technology.
Mosquitoes, ticks, flies, spiders and other insects can be far more than a nuisance. The diseases they carry-malaria, dengue, yellow fever, West Nile virus, Lyme disease and many others-can cause serious illness and in some cases death. In the Americas,
Green Solar is an approach to building solar panels where only the green light is used for generating electricity, and red & blue light pass through to agriculture below. Plants are green because they do not use the green light.
• IDEA-SOLUTION: SUSTAINABLE COMBINED SOLUTIONS THAT ENHANCE THERMAL BATTERY LONG-LASTING POWER/ENERGY STORAGE PERFORMANCE & MANAGEMENT FOR ELECTRIC-VEHICLES
* TRIPLED-SOLUTION HIGHLIGHTING THERMAL BATTERY FEATURES/QUALITIES:
1.[SOLUTION THROUGH CONTACT MECHANISMS/PARTS]
ZERO-OUT/REDUCE Thermal-contact-resistance/
ZERO-OUT heat conduction resistance between two
I would like to present my Waterless Toilet (WT) as an entry for this competition. All concept, design and R&D are by this author.
Two billion people around the world open defecate daily. My WT resolves this problem.
This WT improves health, ecology, security and dignity. Can save countries $ billions in lost hours and healthcare.
The industrial use of enzymes for chemical production currently represents a 100 billion USD industry. A major application of enzyme catalysis is enantioselective synthesis in the pharmaceutical sector, with two-thirds of commercial chiral products involving enzyme catalysis.
The following design system is intended to assist in the increase of the geomagnetic field of the Earth. The device is then able to break gravity and maintain electrical production to "transmit" a magnetic field increasing the total field strength. Currently the Earth's population's common knowledge contains the observed failing geomagnetic field.
IDEA SOLUTION:
SUSTAINABLE [IoT based] AUTO LEATHER-SLICER-MACHINES
to Recover Leather Waste
TAGLINE: instantly & sustainably recover leather-waste material
{HOW THE PRODUCT WORKS:
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