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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 idea behind Flexible Gear design is to be able to engage and disengage (without grinding gears or destroying equipment) two gears using only Flexible Gears. Even though these gears would be used for light or medium duty operations, the benefits are not only saving money and time but also the noise will be reduced,
This invention is in principal a new method of saving electrical energy. The usage of this invention will allow reduction of electrical losses which occur in the electrical transmission networks. The application of this invention would result in cutting energy losses in the electrical energy networks by half and therefore increasing the network efficiency.
A billion people worldwide have access to neither clean water, electric power, consistent solar energy or readily available replacement batteries. Urban dwellers fear terrorist and natural disaster induced compromised electric and water delivery. Campers and the military need to convert questionable to safe water from streams and ponds. WaterSAFE answers these needs.
The Problem:
About 2 million people around the world die each year of diseases preventable by widely used vaccines. In Africa and parts of Asia over half of all vaccines that require refrigeration spoil before they can be administered. Millions of lives and billions of dollars are lost due to a lack of refrigeration.
The solution to the current oil blowout within the Gulf is quite simple if you think outside the box. What we need is an elegant design that can fit over any broken oil pipe of any diameter at any angle at any depth.
Problem:
Offshore oil rigs can rupture and cause serious, perhaps irreparable damage to coastal areas and the
commercial fishing industry. As indicated by recent events in the Gulf of Mexico, no method is
currently in place to prevent the spread of such contamination.
Current methods rely on burning surface oil off into the atmosphere,
The program will enable deaf people
all over the world to comunicate freely with their surroundings. It even can enable them
to make phone calls (will be added). According to the degree of their handicaps it will determine the degree of use of the program.
Cooling of bipolar plates in fuel cell systems affects the performance of the fuel cell directly and also provides system stability. It ensures dynamic response of fuel cell systems to launch innovative environment-friendly products on the market, which plays an important role regarding greenhouse effect and global warming.
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