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Special Report spotlights the eight top entries in 2023 as well as past winners whose ideas are now in the market, making a difference in the world.
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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 development of the ZeeEye UAV provides environmentally friendly production and low-cost lightweight, durable proprietary CBM™ materials.
Technical Abstract:
As UAV technology is rapidly evolving to meet specific operational requirements, the ZeeEye combines three high power and money saving technologies which provide the ZeeEye extended flight endurance.
The Waternet (How to prevent the world from a water war)
(English is not my native language.)
Because of global warming, it will become more and more difficult to get pure water. The polar ice liquefaction, the evaporation of tropical seas will generate more floods and water pollution.
Every year family members have suffered sunburn; it's not always convenient to wear sunblock, and accidental exposure can occur at any time. Since there did not seem to be products available to stop the pain and inflammation of sunburn, I decided to develop one,
A.C.C.S.S (Access and Crime Control Security System)
Designed and outfitted for use with iPAD, iPhone and Android Tablets and phones for DOD, Homeland Security, large Goverment contractors, private corporations, local, state and federal law enforcement entities.
Utilizing ID Cards, Scanner, programming and applications with tight security protocols.
A car that has an option of driving or not driving (the car drives by itself). It has a garbage system, so when you throw a tissue in the special garbage place, the car automatically stores the garbage until the car is parked in the parking lot.
Today's need to improve quality of life of people with disabilities requires flexible, personal and innovative solutions. The latest ongoing studies demonstrate that technology, if used in a correct scenario of services, can offer the right aids that help in restoring physical limitations,
Pomegranate is a fruit that grows in temperate climate. Its juice is high in nutrients and anti-oxidants. It typical size varies from an apple to a small grapefruit (3-5 inches in diameter) with the cross section resembling a rounded hexagonal shape, and has thick reddish skin.
The wrist saver is a simple device that would allow you to rest your arm, keeping it in a comfortable and ergonomic position while working in front of a computer; turning your elbow and not your wrist,
Our company has designed a unique mechanical device, we refer to as a VSTC and a Wind Turbine, to be used as alternate energy, in order to produce a self-efficient AEV that will obtain, using a 12V DC Lithium-ion battery,
This device comprises: an operating support for repair, provided with mounting means in said intermediate tubular sector, centering means of said operating support for repair, in relation to said tubular end, and repair devices and/or accessories which are prepared for its detachable mounting in said repair operating support.
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