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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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In highly agricultural areas where fertilizers are commonly used to support growth of plants there is also a problem with the fact that not all the fertilizer could be absorbed by treated plants. Because of rain or other weather related effects fertilizer gets access to rivers. Then it starts to be very concentrated when a river flows into lakes.
Until now customers go to an airport to take an international flight by an airplane service company and when they want to be medically tested go to a medical service provider. Sometimes passengers take flights with the purpose of being treated by a medical test provider at the destination. But now this is about to change.
Gestures. Few consider it is a point of situation where you need to act yourself to make a bridge for communicating with another person. But for some it is the only source of communication.
Personal Rescue Device (PRD) enabling safe jump from 300-meter height skyscraper.
This paper describes a personal protective equipment against fall safely from height of up to 300 meter (~1150 feet). After the September 11th catastrophic terror event there was a need to develop ways to rescue people in case of fire or similarly events.
My idea is about replacing the old fashioned wooden blackboard with foldable OLED and calcite chalk with electronic or digital pen.
Foldable OLED can be folded and refolded more or less 100,000 times without picture creases. Foldable OLED is sold in consumer's market but its full use is not yet fully realized.
The future will be an exciting place. The SM-150 will enhance the excitement. A Sport Aircraft for a new era, the SM-150 looks like an aircraft of tomorrow because it is. It’s a stylish, next generation sportplane that will be affordable to the general public.
In this project, load cell is used as a weight sensor. This sensor will be placed below the LPG gas cylinder. GSM module is to send SMS to owner as to inform about weight and leakage of cylinder and to gas agency for booking of the cylinder.
Ammonia air conditioning uses the exhaust heat to run air conditioning in automotive applications. This is old tech that isn't used enough, and would not waste any power but save it by not using compressors,
I always had a wish to upgrade and accelerate the figth against a fire. In my country every summer we have many fires that burn large areas specially in windy days. Many times these fires are close to the sea and can be to areas difficult to approach.
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