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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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This mobile attachment will have a personal hotspot/powerbank/sim holder/gprs tracker....the benefits of this is one can be in wifi zone always, can charge once phone as and when required..because mobile today has become one of the necessity of each and every individual more so if one is an entrepreneur.
21st century era there are farmers or villagers who are using traditional & unsafe way of distributing milk. They're usually using Cattle Tanga, two wheeler, cycles and trains with Barrel/Can. Moreover, develop an elevated platform for farmers and eliminate the middle man in the whole process of milk distribution. Most of the time during transportation, controlling the
The Rapid Cooling Station (RCS) and Integrated Cooling Ensemble (ICE) together provide a comprehensive, cheap, and easy-to-implement solution to one of the largest issues facing soldiers, firefighters, and other suited responders in the field today: heat management. Based on the requirements of protective equipment, significant heat builds within a subject’s suit even under moderate conditions and effort.
In our world today we are faced with many challenges regarding lethal weapons used by law enforcement and the military. I have designed a non-lethal polyhedron plastic sphere that creates an ear-piercing siren and temporary vision disturbance. Our brains are stimulated in multiple ways.
Synchronous/Switched Reluctance Motor/Generators (SRM) have great potential for many applications which require rugged construction and high reliability at low cost such as wind turbine generators or tractive drive motors. Widespread use of SRM's is limited because of magnetic circuit reluctance patterns that contribute to cogging torque.
Today's teens are exposed to many drugs in today's world. Most of these drugs such as Marijuana and cigarettes are very easy to detect because of the strong odors they give the users. However a method of ingesting drugs called vaping has just come into the scene.
Vaping is incredibly dangerous because of its versatility.
It's a robot that does multitasks and it takes place in a restaurant or coffee shop. It opens the door for people, takes their orders, places plates and cups on tables, and helps people carry things.
It will be made of a mobile base and one arm attached to that base, several sensors and controllers.
This idea was developed during research for extending the range of an E TRIKE
Human power worked well to extend the range particularly on the flat trails which were constructed on disused railway tracks but on a trail where there was a long steep hill climb the power drawn from the battery seriously compromised range and although there was
Hearo is the world's only Internet Of Sound system. With Hearo any object in your home can be a digital controller. It works like this:
The sound of hitting my tea cup with a spoon make Spotify skip to the next song in my playlist.
Abstract:
The growing size of cities and increasing population mobility have determined a rapid increase in the number of vehicles on the roads, which has resulted in many challenges for road traffic management authorities in relation to traffic congestion, accidents, and air pollution. The most important consequence of traffic congestion is the delay of emergency services, such as police,
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