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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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Clothing Creator is an automated manufacturing process to fabricate clothing without direct human labor. The process can go from bolt of cloth to finished garment in a 45 second cycle. This volume oriented,
This project aims to reduce significantly the number of airplane crashes throughout the world. Considering the consequences after each crashing,
From childhood we have seen balloons filled with a gas lighter than air fly up into the sky. During independence day many of such balloons are released for peace.
Have we ever thought we can use the energy of these moving balloons?
Conventional crutches have changed very little over the past 5000 years, there have been many attempts to overcome the shortcomings of rigid stiff type walking aids, such as absorbent tips, spring's in the shaft, all with limited successes in storing energy.
The problem with variable drive systems are that they tend to have a scrubbing effect, at any given speed the friction drive area is one to one in the center of contact but either over drives on one side and under drives on the other. This causes heat,
Nuclear fusion is the energy source of the future.
It is the process by which multiple atomic nuclei join together to form a single heavier nucleus.
It is accompanied by the release or absorption of energy.
Research into controlled fusion,
Cell phones can be designed for use off the cellular grid. Phone cloud cellular phones act as Internet routers connected using an ad hoc and dynamic networking protocol. The Internet cloud for these phones exists in large part outside the wired Internet. Instead,
Twice the specific power of regular engines, half the cost, half the weight, 30% more fuel efficient.
With hundreds of millions of small internal combustion engines produced yearly, there is a need for simple and cheap to produce 4-stroke engines.
The project consists of a solar adsorption ice maker for vaccines storage in remote areas of Third World countries. The use of these machines does not need any human presence and electricity. The system is completely independent and meets the standards set by the World Health Organization.
For large farms, current irrigation technologies are limited to two options: large sprinklers or drip irrigation systems. Each option comes with a set of problems. Drip irrigation requires tubes to be spread on or under the ground. The tubes can get plugged, become damaged by, plant roots,
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