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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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Air transportation of goods is the fastest mean of distribution; for difficult access areas it is also the most convenient way of transporting some products, especially perishable ones. Yet it is also a very expensive way of transportation.
The idea is to make air transportation of goods affordable to the majority of people.
Presently, individuals with ASD have difficulty processing all the sensor information that they are subjected to. Current research indicates that, with respect to hearing, a person with ASD is not able to “filter out” what would be considered background noise to a person without ASD.
The Adaptive Medical Bed is an idea I came up with during my grandfather's battle with cancer. While in the Hospital, Rehab Center and Home Hospice I noticed numerous issues with moving him laterally and elevating a side or part of a side. These issues were exacerbated by the pain he was experiencing. Elevating his head,
Vertical Axis Windmill
Vertical axis windmill with a unique design and a unique control mechanism
This design is very scalable from medium to large sizes. It has low maintenance costs because it can be serviced from the ground. Doesn't require a complex or hi maintenance braking system. Can be converted from drag to lift air foil designs.
This invention is about a system that monitors driving habits, to be used by automotive insurance providers in safe-driving discount programs. The idea eliminates any of the privacy concerns associated with data loggers that are typically used in such programs, and should thus find a much more widespread acceptance.
In this system,
The drone technology is becoming mature and reaching more popularity in public. The “fellow in the sky” concept emerges as an autonomous sports coach gathering data and taking pictures & videos during a sport session.
There is high demand for food on the Planet.
We need to produce a lot of grains and meat for the developing countries. Usually the ground in such countries is poor or there are deep forests everywhere.
To solve the task we can use the SkyChickenHouse, SkyPiggyHouse or SkyFishHouse. The idea is simple enough: if we can live in
A solar tracker is a device directing the solar panel or solar concentrator to the sunbeams, allowing to produce more energy during the day. Calculations showed that without tracker solar panel loses about 40% of electric power during the day. The main part of the installation is the control board.
Rapid Forest Fire Extinguisher
Fires in dry arid forests start very quickly. Even if these fires are detected quickly, by the time resources are deployed to the fire, the fire could already be out of control. Traditional methods for controlling such fires involve dumping water from a nearby water source by helicopter, aircraft or people with tools –
In the world today, people are having to wear those tacky sunglasses just to be able to go outside. Then once it gets too hot, they go for a swim with those weird looking water goggles. Introducing the new Sun and Waterproof contacts. These make it so that when you go out in public,
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