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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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WHY: Transportation is the master key to survival. A new mode of transportation (independent of diminishing fossil energy) is necessary to achieving an environmentally sustainable yet thriving economy in an urbanized world.
WHAT: ET3™ is literally ‘Space Travel on Earth,’ a global transportation system that is silent, low cost, fast, secure, safe, and environmentally friendly.
With the world using more and more new new chemicals in the manufacture of commercial products and military weapons, and with the increasing pollution at waste disposal sites,
With the multiplicity of aviation accidents, such as, but not limited to bad weather, engine problems, running out of fuel or even control system problems.
Consequences of these incidents include loss of human lives in addition to the loss of the aircraft. The idea came from here,
What does every industry want? A lighter and stronger material. I have that answer...
Compressed Polystyrene (CPS) is made using a unique process on expanded polystyrene (EPS) also known under it's common name as Styrofoam.
Compressed Polystyrene is lighter than aluminum by 150 pounds, weighing in at 8 to 13 pounds per cubic foot,
Creating an idea and bringing it to reality can happen in less than a year. But improvement of it for achieving better gain and efficiency may take several decades. A good example of this is Engines. In recent years human effort for increasing vehicle engines efficiency is not limited to mechanical improvement.
The Automate system aims to provide a sustainable transportation solution for our cities. Many concepts try to overcome the ever growing losses due to traffic jams, pollution and traffic accidents. AutoMate provides an innovative system design which aims to help us all save lives, time and keep our planet a greener place.
The product is called Drainergy. Its purpose is to substantially reduce the enormous waste of money and energy that results when our used hot water drains daily from buildings and homes into the sewer.
Drainergy is a low-cost, absolutely safe, drainpipe heat exchanger that recycles normally wasted heat energy.
Problems: Clean water is a huge problem in some regions of the world. Yet in some countries, people use clean water to flush the toilet. Why do we use clean water to flush human excrement ? it is a waste of clean water.
The TUCAV (Tactical Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle) is a small rotary wing infantry support weapon system (the body is two feet long by five inches thick) designed to support the U.S. military against asymmetrical and traditional forces. The TUCAV allows close range surveillance, keeps soldiers out of fire, instills fear into the enemy,
Vortex Fire Suppression Cannon
Vortex Fire Suppression Cannon (VFSC) utilizing non-resource consuming fire-fighting technology particularly aimed at large brush or forest fires by way of aircraft supported fire suppression technology. Oddly enough but true;
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