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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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Mental and physical health into the public with the help of «Own meditation spaces».
One has no opportunity to spend even a short time in silence and solitude at a frantic pace of modern life; to listen to the silence of the mind.
GM Offers an Improved Safety Technology for Electrical Boxes
Electrical safety is important in every location. Knowing the difference between an electrical device that is energized with electricity and one that is de-energized is important if you are going to perform work in an electrical panel box.
The product is developed with a single aim of improving safety on the road and reducing accidents. Implementation of IoT in the car with the smartphone, smartwatch and car console (which are now manufactured by tech companies with ability to interact with phones) creates an interface for transfer of important information.
The product is developed as an LED lamp fixture which uses an optical filter for blocking harmful blue light wavelengths in the homes to improve health of LED light users.
Blue light suppresses the release of melatonin which leads to sleep pattern defects and health problems. Scientists have unanimously claimed that exposure to bright light in the evening,
The product is a chest strapped medical device with dual ability of being a highly sensitive heart rate monitor while the strap is embedded with multiple audio sensors to detect heart problems through auscultation.
Cardiac arrhythmia, also known as cardiac dysrhythmia or irregular heartbeat, is a group of conditions in which the heartbeat is irregular,
The product utilises used polyethylene bags to form a 1cm thick insulating pad that is made in small custom sizes that together can be placed on walls as an add on insulation in the interior wall of rooms.
The aim is to reduce energy usage in households by reducing heat flow into homes through conduction through walls.
This configuration allows a single design for spacious habitation modules for space exploration. A module can be used to transit space and land on an exobody surface. The crew then reconfigures multistory decks as required or desired. As many decks may be provided for maximum flexibility.
For all decks, mounting hardware can be relocated. During transit,
Globally the world is challenged with, but not limited to, the following issues: energy shortage, environmental (waste management, global warming, GHG), funding for energy projects, desertification and deforestation. The most critical challenge is how to develop capacity and source funding to deal with these issues for national growth and development.
Explore the local community and discover hidden gems through OpenSpaces, an application that displays public resources and community events. Using the Google Maps API, OpenSpaces gives people the ability to locate nearby parks, libraries, and hospitals, and check out nearby events.
INTRODUCTION
THE PROJECT : CAR PARKING SLOT LOCATOR APP
Easily locates the free space for parking.
Saves time.
It tells the exact location of the free space in real time.
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