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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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Of the 38,000 level crossings (Rail-Road Intersections) in India, 50 % are unmanned. There is a steady increase in the number of accidents (about 35 per cent of the train accidents) occurring at unmanned level crossings (ULC). Apart from disrupting rail and road services, loss of lives, vehicles,
SOLAR-POWERED STRUCTURAL PRINTING USING IN SITU DESERT SAND
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Barren desert landscapes are difficult venues for construction due to low water supply, elevated temperatures, lack of a stable building foundation, and accessibility issues.
A low-cost, self-sustaining, solar-powered system is proposed,
My idea is to develop an electrically powered rail collision avoidance drone. The drone would precede the main locomotive by a sufficient, speed and grade dependant, distance to initiate an emergency stop in advance of an imminent collision or derailment.
We are Orbital Composites. Our goal is to 3D print satellites on-orbit. The orbital manufacture of satellites will save over 75% of the cost for launching satellite missions. Most dramatically, one can go from mission concept to operation within days.
Orbital manufacturing has a few more advantages.
In today's world as we know pollution is a very big nuisance for all. What I am proposing is a molecular sieves air filter that reduces NOx and other harmful chemical substances coming out of the exhaust pipes of vehicles.
At home or at work, we often need to lift and transport large and heavy objects. We can ask our friends and co-workers to help us, rent a fork-lift, or even purchase an exoskeleton. All these options are inconvenient, expensive, and result in loss in productivity.
The technology developed is a piezoelectric stimulus-response quantification based gravimeter (PEG). This innovation takes a completely novel approach towards utilization of the piezoelectric element by quantifying the gravitational effects on them--they can not only generate an electric charge in response to mechanical deformation,
The idea of this project is solving the problem of natural user-interaction with Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) objects through creation of mid-air tactile sensations for related industries (e.g. Microsoft Hololens).
When we hold a “real” object,
We are developing a sophisticated electric-assist vehicle idealized for network sharing in urban and suburban areas. This vehicle, dubbed "VeloCar", is sustainable by utilizing battery power, human power, solar power, and regenerative braking.
The VeloCar will be fully enclosed to protect the user from inclement weather. Furthermore,
The technology developed is a monitoring system that includes a base station and at least one sensor unit mounted some distance away, which is in wireless, one-way communication with the base station.
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