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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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Milner Motors AirCar Dare to Imagine the Future!
500 miles. 3 hours door-to-door. Anytime.
The AirCar is a completely self-contained four-door, four-seat advanced-composite road-able aircraft (flying car) with foldable main wing in the rear of the vehicle and a canard in the front. For trips up to 1,000 miles,
SEE THROUGH FLUID and OIL FILTERS
CONCEPT:
Clear View Filtration’s Patented Filter Assemblies were designed to be used as an oil filter for internal combustion engines. The sight window allows visually inspection of the fluid or oil pumping through the filter, this helps determine the condition of the fluid.
GearRail™ is a low-cost, easy-to-assemble linear motion system that is constructed from simple 3D printed parts and common off-the-shelf hardware components. This novel system is being released as open source hardware under the CERN Open Source Hardware License (Version 1.2).
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED
Personal manufacturing devices such as 3D printers, CNC routers and milling machines,
The exigent global energy shortage and air pollution problem is also affecting our prosperity. One way to address both of these issues is to make carbon-fuel-utilization more efficient.
NFTG is developing several extremely-robust, low-friction, highly-scalable & configurable,
Addressable light fixture controller is a simple and small electronic device designed to be used in a single switch with multiple light fixtures configuration in a room. This configuration is often found in large kitchen, living room, family room, and master bed room in an average house. This configuration is also found in office, conference room, class room, etc.
Milner Motors Plug-in Hybrid Kit-Car
The Milner Motors ElectriCar is a four-door, four-seat, plug-in hybrid electric kit-car car designed to be efficient, stylish and affordable.
The vehicle has a fiberglass skin over a steel frame and weighs 1250 lbs. It drives 100 miles on battery and at speeds up to 85 mph.
Agricultural machinery has witnessed innovative advancements from the days of hand tools to modern GPS and computer driven modern tractors where little human intervention is needed. Advancements have even led to a few agriculture robots. However, these robots are for a single use only and cannot be transferred to other agricultural tasks.
The Sisi (or Sili) Cup is a silicone cup that would be a reusable replacement for a paper or Styrofoam cup. It is a consumer product that would have the same feel and some of the insulation of a Styrofoam cup, but more flexible and foldable (or flatten-able) resembling a paper cup.
Flute shape system, its related applications
Design Statement
Objects moving in air have to face aerodynamic forces.
Let's assume that object is in conical shape and have continue groove (like flute on drill tool) travelled along the periphery (starts from conical point and ends on another end) with spiral path.
The Quick Harvester System with Manifold and Heat Exchanger uses waste heat to start the grain drying process on the combine instead of post-harvest in the grain dryer. This system is more applicable in locations with combine harvesters where grain is tough at harvest. North America, Australia, Europe and some of Asia,
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