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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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The OmniSign is the world's first all-in-one wireless vital signs monitor. It has the ability to wirelessly measure and record all four vital signs in one application. The OmniSign uses highly specific and specialized sensors to methodically and accurately measure the most important physiologic components of the human body.
A radical solution for aviation problems is here. Emerging beneficial technologies called flow-thrust technologies can be better avionics that aren’t understood today. Configurations making less drag need research and development before starting production. The aviation industry can be transformed by the technologies. Assembly of the planes can be sped up significantly.
A polymeric film which can be transparent, semi-transparent or opaque, that consists of the polymeric film and a backing of some sort that adheres to the skin of the patient, but can be easily removed to reposition and re-adhered if necessary. The film, contains patient identification, including currently available information (name, date of birth, doctor, etc.),
It is a talking calculator. It gives a voice output. Mainly useful for the blind and low vision patients. There is a voice for every operation on the calculator. The bright LED display will display the numbers and the result after the execution of operation.
Solar Transportation Technologies is developing a fixed guideway system for dual mode electric cars called Freedom Transit. The fixed guideway powers and controls the electric cars while in the system. The electrical power comes from guideway roof mounted solar panels generating approximately 3.8 Megawatts per mile. Utility power is used to supplement solar power as needed.
The Sinclair ZX Spectrum was a boom and some start of the microcomputer business. The inventor went bankrupt after investing in producing electrical scooters, but the concept remains sound. In images you see his original invention, a Wireless Bluetooth keyboard, and a 'Rikomagic PC,' that can be used with any TV, plugged in the TV HDMI input socket,
Problem to be addressed
Real time diagnostics and consumer data collection to enhance product modifications.
The Solution
Summary
The proposed system enhances current technologies to create a solution that is useful for the automobile consumer, as well as the manufacturer’s research department. It begins with the vehicles navigation system, interlacing with the automobile’
'Canard' airplanes have the theoretical advantage of all surfaces contributing to lift, thus a higher efficiency, higher payload possible for the same engine power and airplane size, and also that the stall of foreplane having a higher attack angle would put nose down, preventing main wing to stall, as wing's critical angle of attack not reached, what in fact,
It is now common knowledge and even a demographic dividend that population is increasing and one of the undesirable consequences has been the growing traffic. A very scary outcome of this phenomenon has been a disturbing number of road accidents – a whopping 142,485 traffic-related fatalities. One of the recognized reasons of this accident status has been fatigue,
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