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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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Drawing on our team’s unique experience and insight in the space, we are building the go-to brand for access, inclusion, and rehabilitation for the 1 billion people worldwide with disabilities.
The innovative core technology we have developed is a new model in accessibility: Xogo is a universal platform that enables our users to access game consoles, cable boxes,
This self-initiated project investigates future manufacturing methods for classic coffee machines.
The idea; creating a single manufacturing process witch requiters no complex assemblies therefore saves resources and labor. With the ongoing pricing reduction of metal 3D printing, and the wide spread of printing technology,
With the rapid urbanization and modernization in China, the residential building area has been growing constantly. Application of decorating materials indoor leads to severe volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and formaldehyde pollution, which have adverse health effect on people, including respiratory stimulation, immune stimulation and even cancer risk.
Adsorption technology is the most widely used technology in common purifiers, however,
Today's city buses were built on standard chassis of automotive commercial vehicle manufacturers, they were meant for carrying goods and other applications. Hence city roads are occupied with bulky and space occupying structures. Quite often they might be plying with less than 50% occupancy. Besides polluting.
The ideal City Bus should be smaller, carry the same load of large bus,
In today's scenario fossil fuel prices have gone sky high and fossil fuel is not a pollution free option. We need to reduce the use of fossil fuel for human comfort. Today all cars are equipped with an air conditioner for human comfort. To run the air conditioner a large amount of fuel is burnt, which reduces
When it comes to aging, many problems can occur, including loneliness, feeling of uselessness, and more, most of which can get you down to health problems and create the conditions for the development of diseases such as Alzheimer’s. The usual approach is to treat issues separately.
For many years, the International Space Station has been hosting astronauts in space. Scientists were always wondering how human physiology changes in a microgravity environment, thus the Space Station has its own exercise equipment called ARED (Advanced Resistive Exercise Device). The product helps the human body to exercise in the microgravity environment. Without the effect of gravity,
The worldwide increase in chronic heart failure leads more and more to a shortage of donor organs. Increasing waiting times deteriorate the patients’ condition to such an extent that mechanical ventricular support systems become inevitable to bypass the timeframe until a suitable donor heart is identified.
A cooling system in automobile is used to remove excess heat produced in the internal combustion engines. Most automobile cooling system consists of the following components: radiator, water pump, cooling fan, pressure cap and thermostat. Of these components, radiator is the most prominent part of the cooling system, because it transfers the heat from the entire system.
The Space Debris Remover contains a piece of "soft" ferromagnetic material which can be temporarily magnetized. Debris in metal such as nickel, iron will attract to the induced magnet. After the remover attaches to the targeted debris, it will start speeding up and carry the debris away from its original orbit.
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