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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 basic concept is that after the potent Chinese medicine physician and/or acupuncturist well balanced a patient's body, body's internal environment does not fit diseases to exist instead of killing the virus, bacteria and cancer cells. The Chinese medicine is a crystal of humanity wisdom in the medical field with 250 million years development.
This energy system can be used to access an energy state and transfer a type of energy from one type of energy state to another type of energy state.
Smoothly interlock two independent power devices has been a challenge for mechanical designers. Toyota Prius with its synergy technology demonstrated a successful example. By using a planetary gear box, Prius is able to coordinate the interlocking between engine and motor smoothly, however a little heavy and expensive.
Tick-Search & Destroy solution.
As many owners of pets in the world know, Ticks are dangerous to us and our pets. We use different chemical or natural repellent to fight the danger.
In reality not many have worked so I thought instead of sitting and waiting,
The system is developed for the need of watering plants in the absence of people or less manpower .Also the system helps maintaining the appropriate amount of water required for the plants irrespective of the individuals. The system is based on Programmable logic Controllers commonly know as PLC. Along with PLC,
Multi-Purpose Desalination (MPD) is proposed to perform sea water desalination, while generates electricity and produces salt/minerals as a by-product using wave power.
MPD uses 100% ocean wave power, requires no electricity (Fig. 1).
Main facilities are located in the tidal area, that minimizes under water construction, and also operational and maintenance costs.
This proposes the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to aid in the detection and location of downed aircraft in a search and rescue scenario. Developments and innovations in the utilization of autonomous,
Electric cars have been around for quite some time now. Despite a few limitations such as the cap on top speed and the clumsy electric wires that are needed to charge the vehicle after use, it still has received a lukewarm response. With the increased clamour towards sustainable energy,
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People with disabilities have limitations in activities of daily life such as grasping a glass of water or moving an object. Orthotic products that improve or restore the functionality of the musculoskeletal system of a patient contribute to some extent to overcome the limitations described. So does the hand brace,
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