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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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Increased food and labor prices have caused profitability to become near impossible for restaurants and food producers. Consumer demand for convenience and variety has skyrocketed. Consumers currently spend seventeen days a year on meal preparation and cleanup or 325% more to eat out. Current solutions are no longer optimal or are not working anymore. They take too long, 
Problem Statement:
Elder people, pregnant women, and children with a heart problem should periodically monitor their health.
Due to COVID-19, they are unable to go outside and monitor their health condition.
This may also require huge sum of money.
Some people in rural areas don’t have any proper bus facilities to go to hospital for periodical testing.
A handheld induction stove powered by a rechargeable battery. It comes with a cooking cup(s) that can be affixed to allow movement while cooking and multiple users to cook separate items without a clean in between. PEG will consist of a ZVC module, a copper coil, and a rechargeable battery.
Over the last few decades, cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death worldwide. It is the unpredictability and random time of the occurrence that makes the disease more dangerous. The mortality rate can be reduced by continuous supervision of clinicians and early detection of cardiac diseases. Unfortunately, people suffering from sudden cardiac arrests have low survival rates.
Home automation is building automation for a home, called a smart home. A home automation system will monitor or control home attributes such as lighting, climate, entertainment systems, and appliances. It may also include home security such as access control and alarm systems.
Pollution of water is one of the main threats in recent times as drinking water is getting contaminated and polluted. The polluted water can cause various diseases to humans and animals, which in turn affects the life cycle of the ecosystem.
Anti-pinch technology is a safety system that is present in power windows of modern vehicles. The power window is the window that uses an electric motor to operate. As the name anti-pinch suggests, this window prevents the accidental winding up of the power window. If the system senses any obstacle in the path of the glass,
Visually Impaired people face a lot of struggles in doing day to day work. A cane type traditional device is used by them for every small work. It is very difficult for blind people to carry the device whereever they go. So we are designing a handheld device. Since it is a handheld device,
I have invented a Thermoelectric Generator with electrical power of 5,000 watts AC. The generator is the size of a bread box and weight is 15lbs. It is made of bismuth-tellurium P&N semiconductors arranged in a circular or square Thermopile. I researched, tested and re-tested to discover the secrete of the amazing power of this Thermoelectric Generator….
In recent years, aluminum alloys have become the dominant material for body-in-white (BiW) and battery enclosures (“BE”) in electric vehicles (“EV”) due to their low density. Aluminum BiW and BE, or other platform parts, typically provide weight savings of ~40% compared to equivalent commercially-used steels.
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