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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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A handheld shower head fed by the traditional hose except with a reservoir for adding either bar soap or liquid soap, a switching valve to bypass the soap reservoir or not, and a rotating bristle brush (replaceable) in the head - rotation activated by the hydraulic pressure from the water supply.
Various spray patterns - some that activate brush rotation.
Why should a car be so expensive? The average annual income in the US is around $47,000. The average price of a new car is around $30,000. This is a problem. This means that many people end up spending a good percentage of their income on a device they use only a fraction of their day.
Floor Surface Safety Lamp
Walking and stumbling in the dark bedroom at night is a major cause of accidents in the home. Stepping on the dog, the child’s toy, forgotten shoes, or slipping on a slippery surface will tumble both the old and the young.
In peristaltic pumps (squeeze tube) a new approach is made with this application by using a disposable tube. The pump frame comes equipped with motor, drive and rollers. A few twists with the pumping tube and you have a new pump. It is designed where the tubing is to be discarded or cleaned after use.
This invention proposes a low-cost means to minimize a building's cooling cost as well as extend the life of the roofing.
The proposed device consists of a special ridge vent which allows water to drain on the roof. The gutters collect the water and store it in a cistern to be re-used.
As high-power batteries become available, the most significant problem to be overcome for electric vehicles is the disparate systems used to manage batteries (battery management systems, or BMS), charge batteries, traction motor controllers and power auxiliary systems.
The proposed design is comprised of a single part which,
Product proposal for “Solar Kettle”
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There is a worldwide search for innovative technologies to reduce CO2 emissions.
One option to reduce CO2 emissions is to cut down on the use of fossil fuels to heat water for domestic use.
The sun is an endless source of energy. This energy can be captured and be used to heat liquids,
According to a recent survey conducted by the UN, the population of elderly people will increase to a large extent by the year 2020. People 65+ represented 12.4% of the population in the year 2000 but are expected to grow by 19% by 2030. Also, the population of elderly staying alone at home is increasing day by day.
The crankshaft has been used for over 136 years without any fundamental change to continuously convert linear motion to rotary motion and vise versa. The crankshaft mechanical torque is an asymmetric sinusoidal motion that is acted on or by non-axial and non-tangential force vectors resulting in a work loss of greater than 50%.
A rotary wing rapidly deployable aerial wind turbine
This design is an inexpensive and rapidly deployable alternative to installation of wind turbines. Although wind energy is the least expensive of all the alternative energy sources,
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