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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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Of a city’s total electricity consumption, more than 25% of the power is just consumed by the very basic need for air conditioning–to keep the temperature inside offices, homes, malls, shopping complexes, hypermarkets, cinema halls, factory complexes – at an ambient temperature for comfortable working, living and leisure.
Hydrobine Farm.
Hydroelectric power has been in service for over a century, but its origin, the water wheel, has been around for thousands of years. The ever increasing demand for renewable energies has encouraged engineers to find more ways to extract energy from the environment. One recent development is the Hydro Turbine aka.
This is a full metal cover hybrid windshield wiper blade. It is a new design that is covered full world first. And, it consists of less parts. It is easy to manufacture. In addition, the even pressure distribution wave is shorter so, it gives you best initial wiping and best durability.
Increase in TERRORISM, THREATS & UNLAWFUL ACTIVITIES calls for High Mobility CIVILIAN SECURITY MANAGEMENT.
To counter and defeat the ever looming and evolving terror threats to civilian & military forces, the Police forces require a truly flexible and rapidly deployed defense and security system.
This is a device intended for use as a external ventricular assist device or as a direct cardiac replacement. The current state of the art consists of air powered heart pump devices. This device is electric and runs on a battery.
This device can create a future for those people suffering from cardiac issues.
This project is very simple. I'm 1,84 mt tall and all the time I'm travelling around the word I have to stay a lot of hours seated so, for me, many time this is a big problem and I think it's also a problem for a lot of people.
Over 25 million Americans have been diagnosed with asthma, and of those, 16 million are between the ages of 18-64. Due to the longevity of asthma, it is ranked as one of the top five most expensive diseases, costing the US over $63 billion annually according to WebMD. Over 60% of asthmatics own a peak flow meter (PFM);
The design is specially made for physically challenged people (without hands). This vehicle allows them to drive and control it by legs alone. The foot driven vehicle resembles a standard vehicle which is modified to meet special needs. In this vehicle the important functions like steering control, acceleration, braking and other electrical accessories like horn,
This design is all about sustainable personal transportation and maximized energy efficiency without relying on non-renewable energy sources like fossil fuels. The fuel for driving this vehicle is extracted from sunlight by high efficiency but conventional silicon solar cells, which you may even find on your neighbours rooftop.
This is a design for a mobile aerial solar power plant (MASP) that uses the large surface area and heavy lifting capabilities of a remote-piloted airship to provide a platform for the collection, storage, and wireless delivery of solar-derived energy to a rectenna unit capable of powering an ad hoc electrical power grid on the ground.
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