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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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At present, existing dimensional parameters measuring instruments have limitations like complicated use, time consuming, limited approach, difficult or less reliable interpretation/ readability, required special skills, limited applications, limitations to share or exchange the recorded data.
Solution:
Parts of Instrument Kit:
Minimum two Coordinate Detection Probes (in suitable shapes and sizes).
The purpose of this project is to make a wall climbing robot that can assist the workers working at higher grounds by picking up tools or gadgets. A wall climbing robot can be operated by different principles. Our wall climbing robot uses propellers that are placed at the center of the robot body.
Our product deals with the problem of unrestrained emissions from diesel engine generators and chimneys of factories. Among these emissions, soot (carbonaceous nano-sized matter) especially poses tremendous risk to public health due to its carcinogenic nature. Additionally,
Automobile collision can result in serious injury and loss of life, as well as costly damage to vehicles and other property. My invention mitigates collision impacts to protect the Vehicle from damage and its Passengers from harm. A Vehicle absorbs destructive impact energy when it collides with another vehicle or a fixed object,
There is wide set of the geo thermal generators and the generators that use direct solar heating or difference in temperature of ground and air. Why not to use such style of energy collection to produce electricity from hot regions?
Problem
Bicycles depend on sustainable and clean energy and are good for health or fitness. One of the limitation of cycling is that it required human effort or energy to drive it. Long distance cycling need a great amount of a driver’s energy and the journey becomes full of anxiety and tiredness.
Thanks to its dramatic improvements in aircraft ground collision avoidance, this technology can save the lives of ~100 people each year in the U.S. alone by preventing what is called controlled flight into terrain (CFIT). Accounting for nearly 20% of general aviation deaths, CFIT occurs when a distracted or incapacitated pilot flies a fully functioning aircraft into the ground.
This technology provides an unprecedented level of accuracy in measuring liquid levels, overcoming the many limitations associated with currently available methods. This capability is crucial in various industries that require liquid level measurement within large containers or for materials that are difficult to measure (e.g., cryogenic liquids).How It Works:
Developed at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center,
No present equipment effectively extracts energy from slow speed shallow tidal, river, or other slow moving or shallow water. Also axial turbines can kill fish.
The appended device data describes a new low speed pancake horizontal turbine design which uses large horizontal blades on the streaming side, which autofold on the return side,
This optical waveguide FBG technology can be used as a sensor to detect and map magnetic fields. Alternately, a known magnetic field can be applied to create a particular optical transmission behavior in the waveguide, thus creating an optical switch or selective filter.
The FBG’s waveguide material is sensitive to an external magnetic field,
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