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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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My Proposed Project:
5/8" Drive Hand Ratchet system with a 3 piece 50" long Telescopic Handle with a group of Hand/Impact Sockets.
This system is to allow a mechanic tighten or loosen bolts (or fasteners if no bolts exist) easily. The system will compliment the 1/4" Dr, a 3/8" Dr, a 1/2" Dr and the 3/4" Drive Ratcheting systems.
The first reusable lotion bottle that serves a dual purpose. The bottle doubles as a pump dispenser and transportable tube. The sustainable packaging innovation is refill ready and dispenses 100% of the content inside!
Aside from the lotion pump that's made of up to ten components,
Structural Integrity Management (SIM) is a process or measure that is put in place to increase the capacity of an any structure to function effectively and efficiently over the designed lifetime of the structure whilst protecting health, safety of the personnel working on the structure in its environment.
Every young family knows the following situation: you go for a walk with your newborn; the swinging of the buggy calms your baby down to sleep. The mother and father like to use this chance to get a break from the daily routine and relax a bit. However,
This design is for rural areas with no pipe access to potable water.
It is extremely simple, it's basically a plastic container with a big opening to inlet the "dirty" water and a smaller one from where the clean comes out.
The dirty water stays in a large surface container while the clean in a deep small surface area.
Many metropolitan cities around the world face traffic woes. The traffic causes loss of time, money, causes mental and physical tiredness, reduces work efficiency and causes road rage besides increasing air and noise pollution in the city. Majority of traffic is seen during rush hours in and around the business areas.
Current approaches to counter this are:
• Road widening,
Our product is Bio-Grid Pure Vapor Portable Room Robot for disinfection protocol. It is a fully automatic PLC controlled with touch screen HMI interface. The need is great as there were 1.5 million cases of HAI (hospital acquired infections) last year according to the CDC. The two stage disinfecting sequence consist of;
CTL Engineering of Lugano, Switzerland, has designed and realized a running prototype of a compact, modular Atkinson cycle engine (currently patent pending). This engine is entirely based upon well proven technologies, supporting a quick and cheap way into the industrialized production.
Aqua-Loc Mbube Design Water Demand Management System (WDMS) water meter, consisting of the Intelligent Flow Regulating Device (IFRD) and Automatic Meter Reading (AMR), saves more than 60% in water consumption.
1. The Intelligent Flow Regulating Device (IFRD) is a water credit management which enables the municipality or the consumer to ration and manage water usage.
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