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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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Photophobia, light sensitivity or intolerance for light, may turn into a challenge for many people, more so with people who suffer from astigmatism or any problem that affects refraction will have a high sensibility to light; this can affect the capability to view the details of the environment. Research has documented around 150 million people with light refraction problems,
The purpose of this invention is to automatically stabilize a two wheeled motorbike or scooter as it starts off, comes to a stop or is parked. The rider does not have to remove his/her feet from the foot rests as he/she approaches traffic lights or stops to park the bike,
An idea of embedding RFID tags on tactile paving as indoor positioning system to tell current location, direction and distance to destination through mobile app for visually impaired is proposed.
Tactile paving, a footpath with distinctive surface pattern, assists visually impaired people to walk and stop safely. Yet, it doesn’t tell which direction the path goes. For example,
Most of the time whenever any tube comes to end we generally use any heavy object to squeeze out the remaining and no doubt the process of it is very lengthy and sometimes difficult in various circumstances.
The blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, is a keystone species that plays an integral ecological, economic, and sociological role in Chesapeake Bay. Concern for declining populations in this species is considerable and efforts to raise awareness regarding the need to conserve these precious natural resources is being advanced through use of the Quick-Capture Attended Waterman Trap (Grab-Crab™).
The lateral axis wind turbine comprises of a pair of oppositely placed hubs in combination of plurality of extended radial arms symmetrically projected out wards and fitted on bearings to the central shaft.
My idea is to help people who are worrying about the zipper in their pants that slide down unknowingly, by adding a loop to the zipper head, this problem is solve in no time at all. It will also create a new design for manufacturer of pants as a signature for their product.
The evolution of the human robotic prosthesis with the capabilities to simulate the majority of the movements of any extremity creates the necessity to develop more sophisticated control techniques, mainly in the interface with the neurological system and the control of the mechanical prosthesis.
To activate a robotic prosthesis after an amputation,
The concept of ground-coupled heat exchanger system exemplified by the negligible surface area and least installation cost. This is well-known that at a sufficient depth the ground temperature is lower than the outside ambient temperature in summer and higher in winter. However,
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