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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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We started looking into the toughest problems in Nigeria. Heath has been a main problem here.
Talking about health we thought of using technical means in our field of study in trashing such problems. We considered the availability of materials in solving such problems and the gravity of the health problem to be solved,
At the heart of every receiver is a detector that separates signal information from noise. The TransFilter/Detector (Patent Pending US 15/127,472) is a technological break-through in Detector Sensitivity, making possible recovery of signals as small as -240 dBm. See Figure 2.
Greater sensitivity increases range and/or reduces transmitter power.
Wingsuits are flexible, durable nylon webbed suits that use ram-air inflation during flight. The utilization of webbing between each arm and the body, and involving the legs helps generate lift, and provide sufficient glide ratio when it comes to the user.
It's a Cap. It's a Toy. It's FUNCAP and it shows that the circular economy can be made super-elliptical.
A PARADOX OF SCALE
Approximately 19 Billion LEGO components are produced every year. LEGO bricks are one of those things that never break and most people pass them down from generation to generation. Why?
Problem:
Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) is a disease that affects premature infants. It is the leading cause of childhood blindness. Although effective treatments exist, many infants are still at risk due to the small window of time for detection. The current standard of care consists of in-person, manual screening by a pediatric ophthalmologist. Unfortunately,
In 1989 the company that originated desiccant materials offered a new version of the material to the industry, which subsequently 100% refused stating they would be forced to re-educate their workforce. It remains today, the same scenario, patients,
Jaipur, a metropolitan city out of so many in India, has seen a growth of around 125,000 IC Engine Vehicles in past 5 years. As India witnesses Electric Vehicles taking over in 10 years down the lane. The problem of fate of these ever increasing ICEVs is what our idea focuses upon.
We present the innovative hardware-software Intona complex to relieve emotional tension and stress with evidence of results. The complex includes the light-acoustic bed and the measuring device.
Emotional tension and stress are the main threat for health and business efficiency of modern people, and also the main cause of the development of diseases.
The proposed system represents a novel idea for efficient disposal of space debris present in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Our system is designed to tackle space debris of the size in the range of 10cm. The main aim of this project is to deflect these medium sized space debris towards the Earth’
Augmented reality is a field of research which deals with the combination of the physical or real world environment with the computer-generated data. It is a live direct view of the physical or real world environment whose elements are augmented (or created) by computer graphics. Currently the problems faced in the construction industry are requirement of skilled workers,
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