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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 product consists of a walker assistant with the ability to be folded, reducing its size and optimizing transportation. The walker has a pair of central axes linking the three main elements of its structure: the two legs and handle. The legs are telescopic allowing extension and height adjustment.
CONTEST CATEGORY: MACHINERY/AUTOMATION/ROBOTICS
CONTEST ENTRY: Augmented Reality to Control Machines - The BROWZ*A/R (Mechan*IZ)
ENTRY SLOGAN: “The KEY to What You SEE”
IMMUNE*IZ EDITION (pronounced Immune-Eyes)
COMPANY NAME: ADDIS SYSTEMS
CONTEST CATEGORY: MEDICAL
CONTEST ENTRY: Augmented Reality for Business - The BROWZ*A/R (Immune*IZ Edition)
ENTRY SLOGAN: “The KEY to What You SEE”
Do you believe in the ability of a wind-electric turbine to generate electricity? How about the functionality of a hydroelectric dam to do the same power generation? Both the wind-electric turbine and the hydroelectric dam capture the motion of some other element/fluid (wind in the case of the wind turbine and water with the dam).
Aid2GPS is a failsafe system for localization of a vehicle, even at times when GPS is unavailable. It employs an optical flow sensing based odometry system and a digital compass to track position and orientation.
WORKING (in a nutshell): Initially a GPS reading is taken to globally localize the vehicle. The backup system then kicks in.
Last year, I had gone to the bakery at our University (Penn State) for a tour as part of a cooking club team. One of the first things I noticed during the tour was a large oven that had a narrow opening.
Most of the 3D phones in the market are basically displaying pseudo-3D images on 2D planes by utilizing the human binocular disparity. With reducing feature size of transistors, and increasing much more sophisticated and powerful processors, sensors, lasers and software tools, it is time to have a real 3D phone.
SYSTEM*IZ EDITION (pronounced System-Eyes)
COMPANY NAME: ADDIS SYSTEMS
CONTEST CATEGORY: CARGO TRANSPORTATION
CONTEST ENTRY: Augmented Reality for Business - The BROWZ*A/R (System*IZ Edition)
ENTRY SLOGAN: “The KEY to What You SEE”
Atlas Motors and New Frontier Technology Group are developing several rotary devices optimally suited for propulsion (engine), pumping (hydraulics), or gas compression/expansion (pneumatics).
One result of the development will be the realization of the Ducted Blade Rotary Engine (DBRE). Along with offering a potent combination of power and economy, the DBRE will not exhibit noise,
Over the last 20 years Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) technology has been rapidly advancing. Next generation LCDs are utilizing transparent and flexible substrates and various polymers as supporting material instead of glass. Many of the new applications using LCDs, such as smartphones, have improved functionality and safety. In the automotive industry,
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