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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 Tube 2 by Corvi LED makes up for all that the conventional florescent tube lacks. Tube 2 with its efficiency of 150 lumens per watt, uses one third of the energy in comparison with the fluorescent tube.
Presents an Artificial Intelligence auto learning, early auto diagnostic, auto alert vital signs wireless Plaster. It can be used for real-time monitoring of ECG, respiratory rate, falling and patients temperatures. The proposed device is a lightweight plaster, attached to the chest. It has several sensors, ECG, 3D accelerometer for chest respiratory rate. Body position and patient’s activity,
The chameleon pen can be used to generate any colored ink by just tapping the top of the pen on the required colored object. The pen can used for various purposes where the user does not need to change the pen for his work.
Since 1908 Rope Ways played an important role in the field of transportation. It is very convenient mode of transport especially in hilly area. Less foot prints on ground, Eco-friendly (least deforestation), unaffected by city traffic makes it very suitable for even urban transportation. But there are some drawbacks like safety issues,
The Bluetooth Embedded Amplifier from Sun Hydraulics represents a totally new way to configure embedded amplifiers for hydraulic valve control without using a PC or connecting with wires. This new version of Sun’s successful Embedded Amplifier series can be configured via an iOS or Android app using Bluetooth for quick, easy, reliable wireless calibration.
Title : Integrated traffic control using weigh in motion enabled signal system.
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The durability of the highway and traffic control can effectively be made by integrated an automatic weigh in motion enabled signal system. The system has sensors to get the response from the moving vehicles for weight on wheels and speed of vehicles.
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Above Product (Patent no.8839838 in USA and pending in India ) was submitted by D.P.Parkhe, which were short listed by Wal Mart, for their” Get on shelf “Contest”, for Global voting, among 4000 Products, only one was from India, Pune, Maharashtra.
A visually impaired person is able to employ himself in many public and private sectors. They use computer, mobile phone with a screen reader software, but couldn’t succeed reading papers like News Papers, letters, books and Documents etc. Printing these papers in Braille isn’t a good solution as each paper is highly priced.
Agriculture in India is facing a decline, reason being, inefficient farming methods and labor scarcity. Nirvapana means sowing in Sanskrit. In India, Broadcasting of pre-germinated seeds is the common practice of sowing where farmers walk around the field and toss the paddy seeds on to the field.
The child grows on a daily basis and it is very difficult to maintain a particular size of restraint system hence I have an Idea of designing New child restraint system which has fallowing feature
1. Can able accommodate different sizes of child.
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