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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 “discovery by chance” of the Victor diamond mine location by a geology student during a fishing trip in the 1980s and subsequent research showing the “emptiness ” of the James Bay Wetlands suggests this entry promoting Air Cushion Technology to explore at ground level the potential of these
Geopolymer term was given by Dr Joseph Davidovits from France in 1978 and created Geopolymer Institute. Geopolymers are a class of totally inorganic, alumino-silicate based ceramics that are charge balanced by group I oxides.
The device is a dual mode engine for aircraft. Today's engines are either for flight within the atmosphere (turbo jet) or space (rockets) but not both. In the attached picture you will see a simple non-detailed cross section of a turbo jet engine.
The Catch All Harvest Concept is a netting based harvest system.
The netting is placed under the harvested agricultural product and a container is placed under the net to gather fallen, ripe produce from the crop.
It is modular.
Balak Drishti (Child Vision)
Problem: There are 950M people around the world with myopia who cannot afford a simple pair of glasses. Out of these 239M are children whose families cannot afford to buy simple pair of glasses for their children. Today,
A sensor capturing the minimum distance allowed. Sending a signal to a stop LED. Connected by means of electrical circuit to a module. To be installed in new vehicles (0Km), private and private, used vehicles, vans, utilities, school transport, trucks and any other means of locomotion.
The frequency of droughts has increased by nearly a third globally since 2000. A UN report states that 75% of the world could face drought by 2050, and 5.7 billion people could live in areas with water shortages for a month or more every year.
A fundamentally new type of power mechanical gyroscope Gyro_6DoF with the maximum number of degrees of freedom in a holonomic mechanical system is proposed, the operation of which was developed and tested using AI.
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The proposed design of the Optical Detector Sensors System was implemented with the purpose of its functioning as an Essential Device, in a Solar Locating and Tracking Control System, which was designed to function independently of Clock Time.
How does a wheelchair user hang picture frames in their house without any assistance up in their wall? Sure it is not day to day task but still it must feel limited to hang at once or change the frame at will.
Inspired with flag pole rope system,
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