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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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With all the talk of peak oil, it is hard to believe that something as important as peak water may have already come and gone with no equivalent hue and cry. Eighteen countries; including the big-three grain producers China, India, and the U.S.; are now over-pumping their aquifers.
SPoSER (Solar Powered Surveillance and Exploration Robot) is a 6WD terrestrial robotic platform with real-world applications to either aerospace/military/defense or environmental sectors. Typical applications may be surveillance of a dangerous area by the police or army, or monitoring of hazardous environments (e.g. nuclear accident), continuously providing, next to the real-time video, loads of vital measurements (e.g.
C-YANTRA
(Communication gadget)
SPEECH TO TEXT CONVERTER FOR PARTIALLY DEAF PEOPLE
Aspiration behind this innovative idea came from the problem that our young people are facing i.e. partially deafness. Our study leaded us to fact that there are so many people in Mumbai region facing partial deafness as those others all around the globe.
SNC ABSORBER
SNC Absorber is an abbreviation of Sulphur dioxide, Nitrous oxide and Carbon dioxide Absorber. The problem of pollution through automobiles being a major concern for today’s world has lead a dire need of solution to minimize air pollution as much as possible. The major contents of outlet of an engine exhaust of gasoline engine are Carbon Dioxide (CO2),
Agriculture is the main revenue resource for many states in India. But labor community is more attracted towards new opportunities and higher pay hence the strength of the labor community is reduced. This is affecting the small scale industries such as coconut powder making industries. Today’
BLOCKDESTROYER
As the population is increasing gradually the sanitary problems, problems related to supplying basic needs, is increasing fiercely. In supply chains for supplying basic needs contains large number of and large distances of pipe lines circuit.
The most basic and biggest problems faced in this pipeline circuits are blockages. Even a small blockage can create bigger problems.
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Evacuation slides in airplanes are only used for evacuating people during an emergency situation. My idea is to use these slides to save people from an airplane crash as well as to identify the spot where the plane has crash landed.
Contamination of soil and water seriously threatens the environment and human health, our habitats are vulnerable and, with the growing population, in great danger. Ecological Space Engineering (E.S.E.) is conducting research to find solutions to this environmental threat and with pride we present the “mycoremediating biodegradable closed ecological system”,
This entry presents the idea of design and manufacturing of an automatic corrugating machine. This machine is used for automatic develop and creation of helical formed slits on heat transfer tubes. In other way, the presenting machine transform a simple tube into corrugated ones by the use of plastic roll forming strategy.
This machine has two strategic stations,
This project is to fabricate a coconut husk remover with shell cutter. At
present coconut husk is being removed manually which employs more time and
more man power. This coconut husk remover peels off the coconut husk from
coconut fruit to obtain de-husked coconut fruit via pneumatic controlled dehusking
device. An operator is required to handle the machine during the dehusking
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