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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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2013
What if we arrange a set of permanent magnets in a manner that it would work like an electric motor so that we can generate a circular motion without the intervention of any external inputs,
An alternator electricity voltage can reach up to 24 d.c. volts on trucks with maximum electric current of 60 amperes. If ten (10) units of these alternators are installed in a car, then they would provide an electric power up to 14.4 kilowatts or equivalent to at least 22 horsepower.
Problem / Product Overview
It is estimated that over 80% of hospitalized patients receive Intravenous (IV) Therapy. A major problem associated with this therapy is called IV infiltration which occurs when an IV catheter either backs out of the vein or causes damage to the vein wall.
Bottle and Jar Opener QT-1
Technical field of Invention
This Bottle and Jar Opener is an original tool used to open jars or bottles in a different way than any product found currently on the market.
The principle of this tool is based on the fact that inside any jar (bottle),
Having attended many baseball, basketball, and football games over the years, it always bothered me that the soda and beer vendors had to lug beer and soda up the many stairs of a sports park complex with tubs of ice and soda or beer. This had to hurt their backs by the end of the day,
If you sit on a plot of land and have enough surface area to tap into this wealth of free warm water, you just need to circulate and store the glycol somewhere temporarily. For office buildings the ideal place is on the roof, in the penthouse of a new building. To do this,
The Photonic Space Engine Driver or P.S.E.D is the future solution for deep space transportation and energy needs. Potential benefits include low cost accelerated transportation of resources from mining operations, time consuming transportation of valuable equipment or personnel from deep space missions and an abundant supply of energy for domestic and external use.
Fencing Automation Machine(FAM)
Machine for Erecting/Fixing Paling Planks to a Pre-Erected Wooden Fence Frame
My proposal is to Design & Build a machine or “Automation/Tool – The FAM” to help & aid a fence builder, Construct Paling Type Fences in quite varying terrains.
To give one hundred percent free energy means it's worth everything. As today we are faced with Climate & Environment problems plus with that we are also facing Energy problems as today we have lots of new inventions in energy but still we lack to give 100% pure energy.
The energy today what we have is wind mill, fuel,
Importance of the work
Waste disposal is a crucial problem in developing countries particularly in India due to heavy population. Presently in India, sanitary workers are using the oldest devices like brooms, iron plates and bamboo baskets for primary collection of solid waste. Thousands of workers die from or are affected with respiratory diseases, urinary, skin & eye infection,
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