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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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A sander is a power tool used to smooth wood and automotive or wood finishes by abrasion with sandpaper. This tool would allow the finishing of irregular shaped by using a hand held drum sander.
We have developed equipment that when integrated into a system we have functionally defined, will save the healthcare system millions possibly billions of dollars, create jobs and revenue as well as an extremely generous ROI.
Our initial device is a centrifugal filler. This device can serve as a stand alone unit, work as a tabletop,
The idea of the G-Force Air Freshener came about as a result of the ever present need for a fresh-scented kitchen. A typical cause of bad odor in the kitchen is waste that has been lingering in the trash receptacle for an extended period of time.
In recent decades there has been a population shift to suburban neighborhoods and rural areas where public transportation infrastructure can be expensive and/or unpractical. At the same time, increasing energy costs and growing concern about pollution has led to a need for improved transportation solutions.
Every police force in a medium to large city uses a helicopter to fly night surveillance with a spot light to aide in finding and seeing perpetrators. The capital cost, fuel and maintenance for this operation is very expensive. So much so that in periods of financial tightening of city budgets this may have to be suspended.
With the United States Rain Force we can put an end to out of control forest and grass fires. This is a force of 100 or more purpose built airplanes that can dump 17 tons of water every 20 seconds on or in front of the fire line in a highly synchronized multiple water drops effort. With the U.S.
A patent-pending ENERGY SAVING TV IMAGE CONTROL SYSTEM called TV Green Key is an innovation that will help bring new and old TV sets to the required energy savings stated by the California Energy Commission (CEC) in the 2009 California Efficiency Standards for Televisions, the most stringent bill of its kind anywhere in the world.
Fast Freeze is similar to a microwave oven BUT for Instant Cooling. Frost Fire is Fast Freeze + Microwave. Instant Cooling and heating in one unit.
When we consume Soda/Beer/other Cold Beverage we want its temp to be cold for the duration of consumption, say one can/bottle is consumed in 10 to 20 minutes.
The helmet has an Integral Thermoelectric/Pelzer Device with attached External Heat sink and an Internal Cold sink. Small quiet internal fans or Internal Blower force air over the cold sink into internal Duct work to cool the riders head as the Heat Sink draws off hot air outside. The Helmet plugs into a standard 12V power supply.
A-Hub™ in an innovative medical device based on breakthrough design with the aid of CoolChip™ for low power consumption to extend battery life, which is the largest reported complaint against other patient-worn medical devices such as hearing aids. This universal patient-data control hub, which has been securely programmed by qualified medical personnel,
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