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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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Thanks to a bio-mimetic design idea, promoting a novel self-assisting/self-advancing feature, penetrating into soft and hard formations is foreseen to be performed with more reliability, less energy consumption, less maintenance, less required component and weight for the drill and hopefully less structural integrity concerns.
Doesn’t the ever-expanding number of space launches to Earth orbit seem enormous every year? Statistics reveal fluctuating numbers between 80 and 90 per year starting from the 21st century. Leading countries compete with one another in order to lead the space industry by launching more and more spacecraft.
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The focus here is the construction of a human free device (Robot) to operate on various surgical platforms so as to eliminate human errors, save time, reduce the chances of failures etc. and provide a leakage-free surgery to the patients.
Modular Enclosed Unit of Solar Optimized Light
MEUSOL intends to ease a major problem of current society: energy generation.
The concept consists in an array of solar panels disposed in an optimized geometry and distance of a specially designed light bulb that can excite the panels,
Slotted Waveguide Antennae Stiffened Structures (SWASS) aim to replace the large, bulky dishes and antennae used by aircraft with a waveguide structure integrated into the skin of the aircraft. Currently, antennae are mounted within large spaces inside the aircraft’s structure,
Octahedrals (8 sided shapes) and tetrahedrals (4 sided shapes) when they come together can form complete solids. Magnetic manipulation of the tetrahedrals so they are pushed and pulled, creates an exciting world of one way valves, pump actions and other features to create thrust in any direction.
Briquettes are a densified form of agricultural remains that have a certain calorific value and thermal usefulness once they have been compacted. Briquettes are slowly becoming popular as sources of fuel for boilers in semi-rural India. Not only for boilers,
The proposed concept of active brake cooling in racing cars called G -Cooling System
(GCS) is designated for the Formula One racing cars. Another group/type/ area of races where you can apply GSC is high class racing sport cars (Porsche, Lamborghini, Mustang ...).
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