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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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Most currently available security seal technologies have been in use for decades. Frighteningly, the majority of the tamper seals on the market currently are easily defeated or counterfeited.
BeaconSeal's engineers in conjunction with tamper seal industry consultants developed a set of design goals necessary to address the shortcomings in existing tamper seal technology. 1. Simple to install,
Electronics technology is the basis of most products we manufacture and use today. Yet very few people understand the basics of electronic circuitry. It is essential that electronics technology be taught early in our schools to ensure that the next generation can understand how to use, maintain, build, and engineer, the products of today, and the future.
Energy Generating Autonomous Sailing Craft (EGASC), unlike other wind energy conversion technologies requiring high stress resisting materials, generates pneumatic air/oxygen compression and electricity by the fast kinetic movement of the planing sailing craft with much higher components reliability.
EGASC moves with the wind and has ability to find and follow
the most favorable wind conditions in the ocean.
M-Fuel is a post refinery fuel technology that processes hydrocarbon-based, heavy oils (HFO) (kerosene, diesel and bunker) in a proprietary, patent applied for device that employs an electro-mechanical means to generate an H2O emulsion in sub-micron fuel particles. Emulsions are dispersions of two or more immiscible liquids.
Car Collision Energy Neutralizer
High speed is the biggest factor in deciding the impact extent of a car collision. High speed results in high kinetic energy which in turn results in greater collisions.
Every year millions of people rake their yards each fall; and when finished have piles and piles of leaves that they send to a landfil or that they burn. This is wastefull and unhealthy if burned. My solution is to use the unwanted leaves as a building material.
THE PROBLEM
Up to 75 percent of women in developing countries do not give birth in hospital settings. Care is typically provided by minimally trained attendants, or sometimes family members, who lack the skills to deal with complications during delivery. Three main delays cause the high rate of maternal deaths in developing countries: delay in identifying complications,
Physical exercise is must for all human beings to lead a healthy life. Ancient times it came from our day to day activities. In present world urban people are busy with their work and living a mechanized life. The awareness of keeping the body fit is increasing day by day due to the diseases (Diabetes,obesity etc) and mental depression.
Every year someone drowns in a river or lake and the local rescue squad has to be called out to locate the body. This can take several days to weeks and sometimes the victim is not found until it surfaces and a fisherman discovers the body.
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is responsible for the deaths of thousands of babies each year. Many of these deaths may be preventable with the proper detection. The proposed system is a low cost monitoring alarm that will sound if a sleeping baby is to stop breathing, roll onto her stomach,
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