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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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AVARII is a medical device in the form of a bracelet that provides automatic communication during an emergency.
The bracelet is composed of a pulse sensor that monitors the user's pulse rate which gives an alert when the pulse is low, null or too high and automatically connects you to an emergency center.
The Problem:
The world is facing a global cancer crisis. 13.7 million new cancer cases and 8.6 million cancer deaths occurred worldwide in 2011. More than half of the new cases, and nearly two-thirds of deaths, were in developing countries. Despite substantial innovations,
The AUTO Stop Lamp is a smart brake light that provides added protection for your vehicle, your precious cargo and you. The "AUTO" has two meanings: (1) It's a brake light for AUTOmobiles and (2) It AUTOmatically lights up when the vehicle slows down [patent pending].
The Renewable Energy Hydrogen Systems have been used to produce power. However, the most valuable component of such systems for rural farmers is the water by product. When configured onto a mobile system, the RE Hydrogen System allows farmers to bring the resources to the fields in need of water and to use the power for vehicles,
Imagine this. Next time you buy a car, you don’t have to settle for what’s on a dealer’s lot.
Instead, you design your own car. You buy a Ford body, GM chassis, Intel motor controllers, Toyota wheel/motors, Honda electric power unit, IBM car operating system, and Nintendo driver control unit.
You mix and match modules to fit your needs.
The salsa market is in a recession. The only options are glass jars that do not adequately solve the issue of consuming the recommended weekly serving of salsa. Glass is used simply because it has a larger shelf life, allowing grocery stores to stock items longer if they do not sell.
This design idea is a speed change mechanism that mainly brings the possibility of high efficiency, avoiding power losses, usual characteristic of mechanical transmissions. For example in the car industry, the automatic transmission and the associated drivetrain usually consume about 20 percent of the engine's power and a manual transmission takes about 16 percent of the power.
Inflatable Lightning-Resistant Umbrella
The danger of electrocution by lightning strike is a problem seen by golfers, boaters, and other outdoor groups of people that may be subjected to sudden electrical storms. This invention aims to provide a compact, portable, quickly-deployed shield from such strikes.
Designs for inflatable umbrellas have been around for a while. However,
Inflatable-Rotor Windmills
The inflatable-rotor windmill was initially conceived as a combination of the child’s toy pinwheel with an inflated lightweight sphere such as a beach ball. The sphere performs two main functions: as support for the pinwheel's blades or sails, and as a wind augmenter, to divert and accelerate air into the rotor.
In this invention, we will develop a type of linear induction motor in which powerful electromagnets will be able to drive the blood itself within the human body, thus providing a new means of life support without surgery or dependence on the beating of the heart. Much research must be done to build a practical,
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