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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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Sky Train Corporation (STC) has modeled, evaluated, calculated, and patented a Rail Transit and Alternative Energy System that improves security and increases capacity over rail on the ground. It allows freight to be the revenue source and adds passengers and stations for added profit or convenience,
Photophobia, light sensitivity or intolerance for light, may turn into a challenge for many people, more so with people who suffer from astigmatism or any problem that affects refraction will have a high sensibility to light; this can affect the capability to view the details of the environment.
The purpose of this invention is to automatically stabilize a two wheeled motorbike or scooter as it starts off, comes to a stop or is parked.
An idea of embedding RFID tags on tactile paving as indoor positioning system to tell current location, direction and distance to destination through mobile app for visually impaired is proposed.
Tactile paving, a footpath with distinctive surface pattern, assists visually impaired people to walk and stop safely. Yet,
Most of the time whenever any tube comes to end we generally use any heavy object to squeeze out the remaining and no doubt the process of it is very lengthy and sometimes difficult in various circumstances.
The blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, is a keystone species that plays an integral ecological, economic, and sociological role in Chesapeake Bay.
The lateral axis wind turbine comprises of a pair of oppositely placed hubs in combination of plurality of extended radial arms symmetrically projected out wards and fitted on bearings to the central shaft.
My idea is to help people who are worrying about the zipper in their pants that slide down unknowingly, by adding a loop to the zipper head, this problem is solve in no time at all.
The evolution of the human robotic prosthesis with the capabilities to simulate the majority of the movements of any extremity creates the necessity to develop more sophisticated control techniques, mainly in the interface with the neurological system and the control of the mechanical prosthesis.
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