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Special Report spotlights the eight amazing winners in 2024 as well as honorable mentions in each category, plus the top ten most popular entries as voted by our community.
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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 objectives of this research is to design and test a suitable set of drip irrigation powered by solar cell. Solar panel is used to charge the battery which helps to run the motor in irrigation field. Soil moisture sensor measure the moisture level in the soil. If the moisture level drops below 40%,
Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. If you live in drought stricken California, that old saying may ring true. With over 1000 miles of coast California has plenty of that salted variety, but fresh water resources have been taxed to the limit.
One solution that several coastal communities have leveraged is desalination by reverse-osmosis method.
Product Description:
Stackable tumbler is an innovative idea in which drinking bottles can assembly in accordance with the desired capacity. This product can adjust with the volume of drinks that we want to take, so the bottles can multi-function. The inside is made of stainless steel so it can maintain temperature of drinks.
INSUGUIDE is a flexible blade which both locates and records daily dosages of insulin and measures glycemic indices.
USES Insuguide has the navel as the central reference point and an arrow oriented towards the pubic region. Around the navel area we can find a sequence of days of the month organized in circles.
The Basketball Pick-Up (BP) Machine is designed and intended for three purposes:
1. As an assistive technology device for basketball players with special needs, who are dependent on moving around the court in wheel chairs during their training.
2. As an educational tool for science teachers instructing students, on the use, construction and application of compound machines.
NASA’s Langley Research Center has developed a system to detect and locate atmospheric clear air turbulence (CAT) by means of a ground-based infrasonic array to serve as an early warning system for aircraft. This system could augment existing systems such as pilot reports (PIREPs), airborne lidar, and airborne radar.
Aim:
We've developed a portable, easy to use, under $20 pediatric-focused pulse oximeter that can quickly and accurately detect hypoexia. It works by plugging into the headphone jack of your smartphone.
Challenge:
125 million children were affected by childhood pneumonia and 1.2 million of those died in 2011 according to the World Health Organization.
NASA’s Langley Research Center researchers have developed a measurement acquisition system that uses magnetic fields to provide power to sensors and to acquire physical property measurements from them. Unlike traditional acquisition devices, this system has the ability to make multiple measurements of different, non-related physical properties without the constraint of a limited number of data acquisition channels.
is an internal combustion engine in which the cylinders are arranged in radial lines around the crankshaft and pistons, disconnected from the latter, the transfer of the kinetic energy exclusively through the interaction of magnetic fields static generated by permanent magnets.
Why Safety Shift? Safety Shift saves lives, time and money by helping road crews rapidly set up and remove traffic barrels, channelizers and related traffic control equipment.
Save Lives – How Safety Shift saves lives: Nearly 700 road workers died in hot zones along U.S. highways in 2013 moving barrels by hand. Safety Shift, patent-pending,
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