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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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It is sad that the world is in an emergency due to coronavirus. I have a solution for sanitization & sterilization of viruses & other pathogens. Technology is to use microwave/X-Ray or ultrasonic to resonate lipids/proteins in viruses and pathogens envelope and rupture it.
Chronic wounds that fail to heal quickly, such as diabetic foot ulcers or pressure ulcers, can be very tricky to manage for healthcare professionals and affect the life quality of patients.
New HOPE is an abbreviation for New Heights Of Physics & Energy, it is an innovative concept for power generation and fluid transfer. The system is a mechanical device designed to harness gravitational and centripetal or centrifugal forces with minimal input from an external source. For example,
Air conditioning was originally developed to provide a better sleep environment. However, thermal comfort is unique to every person especially during the sleep state.
A Wealth Generator is an arrangement of graphics cards that have been arranged to perform cryptocurrency mining.
This Wealth Generator mines Ethereum (ETH) but can be used to mine other Cryptos as well.
As we move into the future of electric vehicles we have an opportunity to not only improve our environment, we can also improve our transportation experience as well.
This is a overview of my idea. However multiple alternative fuel companies may have to work together (I personally work with a few as current customers). Use every landfill/brewery gases in the world as a gas station for internal combustion vehicles and machines.
Safety is critical for autonomous drones. However, today's commercial quadrotor drones are still not resilient to severe motor failures. Especially in GPS-denied environments, a quadrotor with loss of one motor will fast yaw spin, causing significant position drift, 
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According to resources, when a SpaceX Falcon heavy rocket blasts off on a plume of white smoke, hot gases shoot out of its 27 engines, creating a thrust of 1.7 million pounds at full power which is equal to 18 Boeing 747 aircraft. Upon reaching orbit,
In the present day loss of a ship or serious damage to it, meaning loss of days at sea, is becoming increasingly unacceptable. The idea presented is to decrease damage from a collision or sinking of the ship after a major malfunction.
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