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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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Tool - Racheting Fire hydrant wrench combine the two tools first two in video (two sided wrench).
After you open the bonnet (top of hydrant) to repair, you need another size tool.
Having two tools, two sizes on one wrench, top and bottom allows for less tools. This is an adjustable wrench which has no tool at the bottom.
Traffic accidents today could be considered a pandemic, since the causes of death, mainly in Latin America, are very high.
Road administrators receive information from multiple sources and their main source is the operational center, where services are managed, there are specific developments, but finally everything converges in making reports in Excel.
With the Platform,
The Ignire is a sedan type car. And mainly focused on middle class people who can't afford current electric cars in the market now. And the second goal is to offer a jet-like feeling while driving it. The Ignire uses a 28kWh lithium ion battery with maximum range of 350Km in single charge.
The CraioVault™ is an ultra cold vaccine delivery vault, the only one of it's kind. It was designed and made to fill the gap created by the absence of a rugged, easy to use, secure unit capable of holding vaccines and other critical medical samples for several days.
It has a gross volume of 27 litres,
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A fully automated river/gutter cleaning mechanism has been developed to tackle modern day gutter jamming issues and to purge water bodies. It uses an automated trash and oil skimmer cleaning system that filters the fluid (typically water) by allowing it to flow through the skimmer but captures large solid waste like bottles & plastic,
The current Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) is generally rated at about 25% efficient. My goal is to increase this efficiency rate to over 50% by making the ICE configuration more correct. Current engines make around 1 hp per cubic inch. My design will increase this to over 3 hp per cubic inch.
Introduction/ Inspiration: Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) uses a high intensity laser pulsed for ns (nanoseconds) to form a plasma and atomize a local point on a material sample. When the laser is discharged it ablates a very small amount of material, in the range of nanograms to picograms,
Description and product’s purpose:
The automated material loading system is designed to move material to a set, cobot-accessible working location. Material is automatically removed when completed and stowed back into the mobile rack. This lift eliminates the need for a worker to remove/reload material from the cobot work zone periodically, and can extend cobot worktime by 10 to 20x.
I've developed a set of gloves for future space suits. I'm showing a demonstration video of the early stages of the glove. It works very well and many upgrade have made it even better. I've been working years on making a better and more mobile and lightweight glove for the space suit.
When my wife and I were first time parents 4 years ago, it was such a blessing, but bottle feeding was my least favorite task; I just couldn’t get the temperature right. With all the pressures of trying to be perfect parents; I failed.
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