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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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A suit that has capability to regulate the body temperature because of the sensors fitted in it. The sensors automatically detect the surrounding temperature and adjust the temp of body.
OBJECTIVES
• Positive displacement of seeding in soil
• Transplanting seeding uniformly without damaging them
• Manual depth control helps in maintaining uniform planting depth.
• Solving Health Back Problems of Farmers
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises a world in which everything is connected by sensors to everything. The cost and logistics associated with installed wiring or using batteries to power these systems represent a significant cost. Our proprietary SemperCell technology,
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are adult stem cells traditionally found in the bone marrow. However, mesenchymal stem cells can also be isolated from other tissues including cord blood, placenta, peripheral blood, fallopian tube, and fetal liver and lung. Multipotent MSCs can differentiate to form adipocytes, cartilage, bone, tendons, muscle, and skin.
Shaper machining is a famous mechanical operation that cuts the metal into different shapes .
Shaper machine has two strokes one is called forward stroke and the other is the return stroke .
There are many adults and children who have died in car accidents. Also many are handicapped for life. Many improvements are present to prevent this occurring in small passenger cars. But when this car strike in high speed with any car/goods vehicle or a big tree then the passengers are either dead or injued.

Electricity-operated durable medical equipment (DME), such as ventilators and dialysis machines, are life-supporting medical devices used at home by patients. The use of DME is not only convenient and economical, but also leads to a better quality of life for the patient. In a 2013 survey, WHO estimated that in Japan alone,
The proposed modular green roof is applicable to all buildings in rainy and tropical regions of the world. In the proposed system, it has been tried to mitigate or even solve the problems related to the previous systems such as requiring a large installation space, low water storage efficiency, water penetration to the interior part of the building,
Most of the coffee mug warmers available in the market utilise resistive heating. These warmers can be used with ceramic mugs or outer-body stainless steel mugs. However these are unsuitable for stainless steel-mugs with plastic outer cover used for insulation. Furthermore, these warmers are inefficient;
Smartphones are smart because of their multitasking capabilities & even by their physical appearance. Considering physical appearance here is an interactive design in which people can feel & sense different materials for mobiles either than just metal & plastic. Choosing windows interface this mobile is been designed.
Features/innovation:
1. Special edition series (leather, carbonfibre &
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