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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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Every year, tens of thousands of fire engines, ambulances, and police vehicles collide with other vehicles driving in front of them or crossing at intersections. A world-wide accounting was not found in the literature, but in the United States the frequency, causes, and remedies are published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and others.
In recent years, the traffic safety issues becoming more important about how to further reduce casualties. In addition to the driver's attention to safety, how to protect the pedestrian safety is the focus of another need to think about. Road safety for the elderly, those with reduced mobility,
To solve a problem that is inherent with landscape lighting systems, I created a smart phone controlled lighting system installed in real river rocks. Liners in waterfall and stream applications do not allow stakes to support underwater lighting and these new Real Rock Lights will not move once in place above or below water.
The challenge areas are pertaining to Puncture of tyre in a vehicle, need of wheel balancing by use of carcinogenic material Lead, leakage of air/nitrogen from tyre resulting in low fuel efficiency and local overheating of tyre causing tyre bursts and decrease in tyre life.
Gun magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition are generally considered “high capacity” magazines. Laws in multiple states prohibit these high capacity magazines for civilian use. In order to still be able to carry a lot of ammunition, civilians are forced to carry many 10-round magazines creating unnecessary bulk, weight,
Donald W. Collins, Ph.D., has been involved in developing the ACADZ 3D STL Radiation Compensator Negative Plastic Mold Filter Conversion Software/Hardware - “Combined Package” to convert the DICOM RT Optimal Fluence Patient Treatment Plan Files (.dcm) into 3D (.stl) code files to be used on a 3D Printer for printing 3D Compensator Negative Plastic Molds. This ACADZ “Combined Package”
This medical monitoring system sets up in less than ten minutes and can monitor any number of patients limited only by the space available in a make-shift hospital, tent, or area within 1000 feet of the monitoring station.. Each patient is fitted with a bracelet/watch monitor with GSR and temperature sensors developed by Exmovere Medical Systems.
Identifying the Need
One major issue ambulance corporation faces is obtaining medical information and records of every patient assisted. In many cases the patients are found unconscious with little to no identification found on them. On some occasions, unconscious patients are allergic to many medications,
BEELIEV is an impact driven technology company on a mission to promote, develop, and implement a practical solution to one of the world's most challenging economic and humanitarian problems; the price of pavement. With the ability to efficiently deliver cargo without reliance on roads,
This Helical Impeller was designed to solve the problem of the Dead Zone in the Gulf of Mexico. The Dead Zone is an area where the oxygen-rich fresh water at the surface does not mix with the oxygen-poor saltwater on the bottom, creating a region on the sea floor with no oxygen.
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