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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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Lifeguard Shell consists of a hollow sphere, airtight door, porthole, air vent, portable toilet, seat, bladder (water tank), GPS, light, etc. The hollow sphere is made up of aluminium. So that it can float on the water. Watertight door is fixed on the hollow sphere. It follows the marine door mechanisms.
In rural India bad roads are a very common sight. Due to these bad road conditions poor farmers lose their little money to maintain these tyres which wear out faster and have frequent punctures. All the potholes or bumps on the road reduces vehicle speed and increase fuel consumption which is again a big expense for poor farmers,
The problem that we want to solve is to avoid the fulfillment of thefts in private homes using an active anti-theft system. The idea is that of a system which, by continually monitoring the internal domestic environment, is able to detect the presence of one or more extraneous and perform, after notification prerecorded,
The present scenario of electrical power generation is towards wind and solar power to reduce the global warming which has adverse effects on environment, health, loss of property and lives. Even though there is a lot of wind potential all over the world, the present wind turbines are not preferable for heavy wind zone areas.
Products idea:
1. Bluetooth Acoustic guitar Pickup and Receiver Module
The concept is that a Acoustic guitar player does not need to physically connect the guitar pickup chord to Guitar Amplifier or to a simple bluetooth speakers.
System [with appropriate Sensors] Locating and Tracking Solar [Source] Radiation Displaced in Hemisphere of a Location*.
The original primary function was to orientate a Solar Collector to face the Sun,
I propose constructing a humanoid robot originally to allow doctors outside the combat zone to operate on injured personal as soon as possible. Being a binocular, full sized telepresence robot with haptics feedback would allow the surgeons to utilize it with minimal training.
Other uses would fulfill the definition of robot. it could stand in for first responders,
REGENERATIVE PADDLE-WHEEL BOAT
The electric or hybrid regenerative paddle-wheel boat or RPB, is an economic and ecological solution for the people locomotion, fishing, and merchandise transport on rivers, which will have none (if electric) or reduced (if hybrid) fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, in comparison to the usual engine/propeller driven boats.
People who travel for business often have the need to send and receive fax documents when away from the office. “Fax by email” services may satisfy this need in some locations, but the hazards of finding an appropriate Internet signal make this solution unsatisfactory in many places. Privacy is too often an issue (doing business at Starbucks, anyone?),
PROBLEM
People problematically procrastinate too much on their phones which can be disruptive to their lives. Being slaves to these devices creates Stockholm syndrome. Who is really in control?
CONTEXT
CASE STUDY 1
94% of all phone owners (between the ages of 18-35 aka Generation Y) use their phones as an alarm. Furthermore,
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