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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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This drone has 4 new parts that can increase the load capacity and maneuverability many times:
• Turbopropellers are propellers with turbo expander in the center.
• Lifting body, which increases the load capacity by about 30%
• Vertical flaps that turn the resistance of the motor holders into useful work.
• Reactive cuts on the wings,
Using big data, people will get optimized transportation to work and back home (rush hours) by public and shared transportation means. Every day, each individual will be picked up from home at a predetermined time and brought back by the end of the day. Every car driver will share his car taking with him people requiring the same route.
ROSES is a Robotic System for Endovascular Surgery, composed by a console, the master, that can control up to three slaves, and a number of disposables (at least one per each slave) that allows driving guide wires and catheters into the human body, separating the doctor from the patient, in order to eliminate ionized radiations for the doctor.
Ayurveda is life in case of biomedical. It basically deals with Vatt, Pitta, Kapha. These three together are called tridoshas. They contain lot of information. These are diagnosed through a person's wrist. In today’s technological century what a great idea if person comes to know about presence of heart attack earlier.
A ladder without rungs.
This ladder uses the batteries from your power tools to power the ladder up and down. The ladder has only one rung that you stand on, and it goes up and down by pushing the button on the handle that you hold, or it could be controlled by your foot.
Cleaning the shower should not be hard for anyone. A Teflon- or ceramic-coated shower would repel water and dirt from the surface walls. Who wants to spend an hour scrubbing dirt from scum ridden walls? A shower is a space in the bathroom for humans to use for personal cleanliness.
The Pulsed Turbine Transvector Jet Propulsion concept is a recently developed adaptation to the Pulsed Turbine Rotor Engine and The Pulsed Turbine Jet Propulsion concept.
Good News! The first practical lightweight jet-powered VTOL "car", "aircraft" is finally within reach. I'm presenting to all of you, an opportunity for one corporation or investor to make aviation history by capturing the elusive practical flying car that has been sought after for many decades. I am writing to you not as a professional engineer,
A recent 1-Megawatt all-magnet generator was developed to have 'no spark',
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