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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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Redesign the step master to include working out the upper body (New Design) at the same time you work out the lower body (existing machine).
It has two options for working out your upper body:
Option 1) From pulling, will work out the arms biceps/tripceps,
The combined turbine is in 3 times more effective than the already existing. This effect is reached by that, between vertical blades of the turbine horizontal propellers are located (free or rigidly), which force air into the space between blades.
Remedy Lift is a lift designed to lift patients from wheelchair to bed and vice versa. This lift differs from existing products because it is completely remote controlled, allowing the patient the option to operate it without the assistance of a nurse,etc.
This is a revolutionary, yet simple, new bike rack design. It is designed to mount to the standard hitch receiver. It will accomodate any style or size bicycle frame quickly and easily with no need for adapters. It can hold up to six or even seven bicycles.
Develop half-size printers for printing documents that do not require standard 8.5x11-inch paper, such as sparsely worded fliers and reduced-size manuscripts. This would not only save paper and toner, but weight in shipping products and documents that currently use standard-size paper.
Wireless power systems, such as inductive power transfer (IPT), can be installed at airports to power aircraft while idling at gates and on taxiways. This would eliminate the need to run jet engines to power stationary aircraft,
The problem that exists today that prompted the idea for this device is that there is a declining availability of fossil fuels and other “non-clean” energy sources. Scientists and engineers around the world have developed means of harvesting “clean energy.
Saves valuable wall space by allowing user to hang flat screen televisions and pc monitors in the corner of any room. The bracket remains completely hidden behind the tv screen/ monitor. U.S. Patent #7,883,066. This system has only 3 parts,
DAMPS MKIV Smart Boots utilizes the most advanced shock mitigation suspension/propulsion technology in the world.
DAMPS Technology MKIV Smart Boots utilizes opposing super magnets in the heel of footwear for advanced suspenstion/propulsion shock mitigation.
In testing with Special Operations Forces (SOF),
Hurricanes are tropical storms of high speed. They originate in the equatorial regions of the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. They involve heavy rains and powerful winds. They cause floods, loss of human lives, livestock and destroy buildings. They snap and uproot trees and down power poles.
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