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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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Keeping and caring for a dog outdoors has many challenges ranging from providing and protecting the food and water to keeping our pets warm and dry. My approach to solving this myriad of problems is first to mount the house up off the ground at a reasonable and safe distance on a 2" steel water pipe.
The patent pending Automodal system automates the loading and unloading of semi truck trailers on train cars. Now, time sensitive freight can be transported via railroads removing the diesel guzzling vehicles off our highways.
It works like this: A truck driver positions a semi trailer onto an Adaptor Plate (similar to a large automation pallet), unhitches the trailer,
IDEA:
The main theme behind this idea is to develop a self chargable mobile device that works on the phenomenon of piezo electricity.
Working principle:
We know that whenever a stress is being applied on the peizo electric transducer, a certain amount of potential develops across its leads which can be utilized to feed the load.
Using the same principle in this mobile,
The name of my invention is the Carrier Pro, and pertains to the games of Golf, Tennis, and Baseball.
Presently, when far away from their caddies, golfers carry their golf balls in their pockets; tennis players carry the tennis balls on their sleeves or pockets, and in baseball, the umpire, who throws the balls to the pitcher,
Guardian Angel is a kidnapping surveillance system that uses high altitude cameras to record visual evidence of kidnappings that happen on the ground in cities. The visual evidence obtained by these cameras is used by law enforcement employees to obtain the last known location of a kidnap victim and also track the vehicles being used to move the victim.
Our Sterilization Roundhouse is a unique, first of its kind, design that would efficiently and inexpensively process decedents in a disaster situation, stalling further decomposition, thereby preserving tattoos, fingerprints, and identifying characteristics of each person.
Irradiation Sterilization safely, efficiently and cost effectively adds weeks to the time available to identify remains before they are too deteriorated. Thus,
The “While You Wear It…Wrinkle-Away”© is a small hand held device that allows you to remove wrinkles from clothing while you are wearing them. Fabrics that wrinkle easily mainly do so because moisture lowers their glass transition temperature, which is where the molecules loosen allowing for re-arrangement of the fabric’s fibers.
Watching the waist line size and body weight is the main responsibility of every weight watcher. "Measure your tummy" belt and "Measure your weight" shoes allows you keep a watch on them easily without any additional effort.
"Measure your tummy" belt is any regular belt to outside world. But inside that belt has an inbuilt measuring tape.
For a young person to obtain a driver’s license, many states require that the applicant participate in a driver’s education course that lets the applicant drive with an instructor in a specially designed vehicle. The vehicles usually have special modifications which allow the instructor to take control of the vehicle in dangerous situations. These modifications, the maintenance, fuel, insurance,
Portable charger.
Very simple construction.
Easy to assemble and transport.
Simple way to increase productivity up to approximately n times without using expensive additional photovoltaic elements.
n= (d-1 )/ w.
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