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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 a new way of personal transportation which is non-polluting, electric, comfortable and a fun ride. It's quick, sturdy and a life-long machine. It is powered by a heavy duty motor and runs on a set of leak proof batteries.
We are designing an eVTOL system which can act as a Personal Flying Ship or as an Air Taxi in the Busiest Cities in the World.
All regions the world over with high temperature weather are suffering from consumed power by air conditioners, where this consumed power is localized in a compressor. This design is generated to solve this problem.
It is a simple solar collector that is made of metal with good conductivity and coated with a black color to collect more sunlight.
An idea from 1985 now updated. Although direction back to balloons, drones are more flexible. Large wing area with solar cells, bent slightly to catch more light when the sun, off apex. 2 concepts ST-1, and ST-2. Concept can be enlarged for passengers. Concepts also useful for Mars missions, rather than helicopter.
In highly agricultural areas where fertilizers are commonly used to support growth of plants there is also a problem with the fact that not all the fertilizer could be absorbed by treated plants. Because of rain or other weather related effects fertilizer gets access to rivers. Then it starts to be very concentrated when a river flows into lakes.
Until now customers go to an airport to take an international flight by an airplane service company and when they want to be medically tested go to a medical service provider. Sometimes passengers take flights with the purpose of being treated by a medical test provider at the destination. But now this is about to change.
Gestures. Few consider it is a point of situation where you need to act yourself to make a bridge for communicating with another person. But for some it is the only source of communication.
Personal Rescue Device (PRD) enabling safe jump from 300-meter height skyscraper.
This paper describes a personal protective equipment against fall safely from height of up to 300 meter (~1150 feet). After the September 11th catastrophic terror event there was a need to develop ways to rescue people in case of fire or similarly events.
My idea is about replacing the old fashioned wooden blackboard with foldable OLED and calcite chalk with electronic or digital pen.
Foldable OLED can be folded and refolded more or less 100,000 times without picture creases. Foldable OLED is sold in consumer's market but its full use is not yet fully realized.
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