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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 Problem: Traditional cooking fuels (wood/charcoal, coal, gas, oil, and electric) are becoming difficult to obtain. Fuel resources have either been depleted or have risen in cost, placing a substantial burden on the population throughout the global Sun Belt. The strain is felt among both the affluent regions and developing nations. Those living,
Alair aluminum-air battery for sustainable electricity production
This device is intended as a standalone electricity generator for off-grid living, in either developed or developing countries. It uses the chemical reaction:
4Al + 3O2 + 6H2O ? 4Al(OH)3
to produce 12 VDC electricity which is then inverted to produce either 120 VAC or 240 VAC output.
Cooling beverage (soft drink or beer) inside the can without using a refrigerator or ice or cooling box. A stored cooling gas in the can will be release to cool down the beverage when the person ready to have a cold one.
DisplayScore - LCD score viewer for Musicians
Have you gone to a concert? And did you see a musician make some effort to change the page of the score while playing the instrument? Well, this equipment is useful because the musician doesn't need to use his hands to change the page.
One of the most common automobile problems is thermostat failure. While the thermostat can be removed in an emergency, without the proper tools, especially the correct gasket, a roadside repair is impossible. With a side loaded cartridge thermostat,
Concept Background
Motorcycle is a cheap and convenient mode of transport especially in developing nations like India where cities are very much crowded.
-About 38 % vehicles registered in Mumbai are motorcycles.
-Motorcycles have 16 times the rate of serious injuries per 100 million vehicle kilometers compared to cars (Dept of Transport,
Water is a precious resource that is scarce in many parts of the world and is gradually becoming insufficient in the rest of the planet due to population growth and water contamination. It is predicted that in the next decades, water will substitute oil as the principal driver of the global economy.
Super-simple Description: A portable device that records data(video/audio) all the time, so that you don’t miss a thing.
‘X’ is a suite of modular devices intended to achieve the 3 following aims:
To record and catalog almost any type of audio/visual experience seamlessly,
Capture an experience as and when it occurs and,
The Inter - Nodal Connector Architecture [INCA] (REG.U.S.PAT.OFF. #6,869,246) provides a Universal, one-piece-part dynamic assembly system capable of constructing complex frameworks of any kind which can then be completely collapsed to a fraction of their original volumes, moved to remote locations, and then instantly deploy themselves into their original framework/shapes. While not self-assembling ,
Many inlets, estuaries, and wetlands suffer from a common heritage: contaminated sediment. Scientists are only now beginning to realize that old, contaminated sediments covered with new, clean sediments does not mitigate ongoing damage from the buried sediments. For example, fish flies burrow 5 - 10cm into the bottom of rivers and lakes,
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