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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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The idea for a Parabolic Airstream Inline Diffuser (P.A.I.D.) came into existence for the purpose of making it easier to tow my caravan by reducing the significantly restrictive aerodynamic properties of my caravan.
Electrification in aviation will be one of the big engineering challenges of the near future. Different types of electric powertrain architectures have been proposed and many of them have been implemented and tested in real conditions. So far,
Technology has become cheaper and more accessible, giving way to opportunities in technological areas that were previously inaccessible. Moreover, building a fully functional self-driving vehicle has become the new gold rush in the current industries. Yet, there are many issues to solve when building an autonomous vehicle. For instance, a self-driving vehicle must be reliable, consistent, predictable,
Everyone is making electric cars. This idea answers the question:
'Why would the customers buy our cars and not other OEMs'?'
This idea will provide and range of motorized electric gadgets and utility vehicles that will be sold along with our cars that will help customers solve a specific mobility problem.
The bottle is the result of a study on the consumption of "clean" water by my 9-year-old child.
Studies show us that liquids stored in plastic containers cause allergies, lose properties during storage and even destroy health.
The design I have drawn is a drone. It is not just a drone but it will help many companies and services such as NASA, the Marine Corps and the military. This drone can dive into water so that we can discover thing beneath the oceans,
The VAYU is a prototype under development to meet the needs of electricity consumption by our society in the future. The renewable energy namely rain, solar and wind. Not only does it use renewable energy but also simple resources which are easily accessible and available globally, such as bamboo as a pole.
The proposed product is a new type of car chair pneumatic pillow. This pillow consists of three pillows, manufactured with elastic materials. Two of them are connected by air valves. The central pillow is isolated from others and contains microbeads or another filler. Pumping of the pillow will be by a pneumatic pump.
Product Name：VKnighti
Team name: KSKC
Slogan: Ride for fun, see unstoppable
At present, smart wearable devices have become indispensable equipment for modern life. With the popularization of mobile Internet in China, the Internet of Things is also being actively promoted. Now it has formed a combination of smart wear set with smartphones as the center, smartwatch, headset, bracelet,
Vibration and Inertial Electro Mobile - VIMO contains several innovations that improve the energy efficiency of existing technologies:
A new system of accumulation of vibration energy, which is 4-5 times more effective than the famous GenShock.
Combined wind-turbine, which absorbs 3 times more energy of air flow than conventional.
The solar panel with Abbe prisms,
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