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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 main motivation for the design is to supply natural light, its specific emotions as well as the life-giving function in the environment where humans often absent it. Sunlight helps us in production of serotonin and melatonin,
This souped-up system will do it easily. “100% effective” needs to be qualified. All microbes in a given treatment area will be destroyed, without exception. However,
Currently there are over 1.25 billion units on the road (0.32 billion in the USA), a minimum of 5 billion brakes or 10 billion pads. In addition the industry manufactures around 90 million units per year which represents around 400 million brakes. All these deposit debris to the surroundings. The vehicle numbers represent the market potential for this design.
Including a phase change in a closed cycle heat engine is innovative because liquids expand so many times their volume when boiled. The working gas in a Stirling engine expands at a linear rate when heated creating the pressure changes needed.
The Hitchnic Table is the first ultra-portable picnic table that takes up no room in your vehicle and provides extra storage space functioning as a cargo rack. The goal with this project was to make the outdoors more accessible, and to make eating outside, a lot more comfortable. In today's culture, many activities revolve around food and eating.
This is a system of energy harvesting by aero and hydro power.
Aero power like that produced by wind turbines and hydro power like that of water turbines. The energy harvesting is done with the help of a series of rotating rotors.
The system is formed of three chambers :
- Air chamber where the rotors,
When we pour a liquid into a bottle/container using a funnel, the air inside the bottle tries to escape, but since the funnel is plugged on to the opening of the bottle, it becomes difficult for it to do so. Since the mildly pressurized air inside the bottle imposes a back pressure for the fluid,
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A security factor in an automobile plays an enormous role in saving lives during accidents. Accidents that happen during road trips are unfortunate and cause loss of precious lives. To minimize the loss of life several safety factors are being made mandatory, one among them is compulsory wearing seat belt. Driver normally avoids seat belt.
Safe drinking water is the main scarcity after any disaster – whether natural or manmade. In many situations surface water is available but is contaminated with harmful diarrhoeal germs of diseases like cholera, typhoid, paratyphoid, dysentery, etc. If the water is not contaminated by industrial wastes and insecticides,
According to the National Crime Records Bureau, the total number of rape cases in India was a staggering 228,650. Delhi, the national capital, accounted for 5234 of those, and in 2011 according to the Ministry of Home Affairs, a total of 24,193 cases were reported. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
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