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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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Segregation of waste is the first and most important step in waste management and environmental preservation. It allows for better disposal of waste and encourages more recycling and reuse of matter. Lack of segregation is the root cause of clogged land fills, blocked drains, soil and water pollution and can hinder the entire process of waste disposal,
Problem we are trying to address:
The soldiers at our borders and war zones are affected by climatic changes, get wounded badly and lie unconscious. Also in disaster zones, civilian victims get caught in debris of buildings awaiting rescue teams. In current scenario, the rescue teams shall get only an alert for help,
LockSec Password Manager will become the only password manager tool anyone would ever need. In contrast to currently available software and password managing tools, LockSec will introduce revolutionary innovation in the field of security and password management with new cross-platform and cross-website integration of the tool.
Throughout the years, the railways system has undergone many accidents at level crossings and accidents due to poor visibility which have caused harm to countless lives of people and has also cost the railways a large amount of money. So, to rectify this problem, we have designed a model which is totally automatic,
We aim to make a device that analyzes and detects all type of pollutions like Soil, Water, Air, Noise. It will be handy and useful for the average person; they can use smartphones to access the application. Thus we call it SWAN-PD (Soil, Water, Air, Noise Pollution Detector).
There are separate devices present to monitor Soil, Water, Air,
This is a deployable storm shelter mounted to posts that penetrate a homes slab and concreted into the ground below the slab. When not in use the shelter is covered by a furniture quality covering, TV wall, book shelf, etc. The cantilevered deployable design requires no engagement with fine flooring.
Pollution and especially air pollution has always been a serious threat to the environment. One of the very important factors responsible for air pollution is the emission of gases from the vehicles such as CO, HC, NOx etc which degrades the environment.
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