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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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General Description: This design is an aftermarket adapter for standard roof- or porro-prism binoculars. The adapter includes a configuration of tubes, cameras, pico-projectors, a tiny computer with FPGA, secure-WiFi, GPS, compass, and software...plus batteries and an optional motion-controlled mount. The result is a 3-pound, fully-digital, stereo-3D,
Introduction
The vibratory cavitation piston pumps (VCPP) are intended for moving and spraying solutions and aggressive liquids.
It is remarkably that the VCPP technology was opened, studied and patented in the USSR more than 30 years ago by Grigori Lishanski, PhD. A number of vibrating pumps were registered as “vibrating pumps of Lishanski.
This invention is a lane guiding addition to a modern GPS, directing the driver into the correct lane for navigation, without having to remove their eyes from the road.
Complex three, four and five lane highways (California, Texas, New York, DC come to mind), having major arteries that can merge from either the left or right,
Many locations with poorly developed infrastructure do not have the capacity to receive airplanes and rely on ground transport from better equipped ports. Conventional airships could theoretically put down at any location, but due to expense of helium lifting gas are rarely used. They are also difficult and dangerous to handle during landing and take-off.
The Mini Electric Timer if manufactured would allow consumers to set a different charging time for each of their personal electronic devices.
What problem does your design idea solve?
The Mini Electric Timer can prevent (1) overcharging of your electronic devices. Since the mini timer cuts off electricity when charging is completed.
The E-Witness Camera is a simple solid state camera that constantly records images until a programmable event. It records to SSD memory until it's filled, then begins to write over the oldest captured images. It can also be programmed to cease recording (to prevent write-over) at certain events, such as a timed period after an alarm notification,
This is a device to aid those who wear prosthetic limbs. The current state of the art is a multilayer system that consists of a cotton sock and a silicone rubber sock that fits over the limb. The prosthesis can attach to the silicone sock by means of a rod and ratchet device.
Aquaback is developing a highly efficient, low cost, low maintenance, compact, modular vapor compression distiller to be the water processing module in a wide variety of water processing systems to clean incoming water or reclaim waste water.
Think of how many times we climb or descent stairs in a typical day at work or at school or at the stadium or in the mall. Think of how many other people have used the handrail in the last hour. Is there any way you could wash your hands after touching every handrail? Not practical.
How would you like to walk on AIR literally? With magnets, you CAN! This shoe will be the best shoe ever made! Positioning magnets on the bottom of a shoe facing opposite each other will create,of course, AIR in the middle, which is what you will be WALKING on. The benefits include: better balance, joint and knee protection,
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