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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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As long as kinetic energy recovery systems don’t supplant friction braking and discrete gear reduction levels haven’t been replaced with infinitely, or continuously variable transmissions, automobiles, trucks, and buses will continue to rely on reciprocating piston internal combustion engines and/or electric traction motors.
Technology exists for major step improvements in the thermal efficiency of fossil fuel engines.
Ascend Manufacturing has invented the 3D printing technology of the future. Developed under a Nation Science Foundation grant and being perfected with world experts in 3D printing at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, our patent pending technology has so many industry disrupting advantages over existing technologies that puts us light years ahead of everything else on the market. Our technology,
Turbine capabilities include thermal exchange of sensible heat via internal micro condensers, as well as supplementing a triple pull generator system for self powering efficiency.
The renewable energy created by the "Shade Maker"
This system rejects robo and unwanted phone calls on both land line and cell phones. Previous methods depended on using users call list or phone numbers that were known to be robo type calls. This is not effective as callers use spoofed phone numbers.
In a move from rural to urban we are posed to be maxed out with our current transportation infrastructure for mass transit. Here is where the extended range and class 3 ebike start to be adapted for mass transit. It is a lattice that is connecting the rural parks to the urban cities.
Attochron's i-AIR(TM) Fiberless 5G Backhaul: the world's first and only ultrashort pulse laser-based optical wireless telecommunications link -- all others have used 'continuous wave' (CW) lasers. This technology space is generally known as 'free-space-optical communications' (FSOC). 
This Mixed Reality Equipment(MR) can record the video data with a key in which is the ID of MR and recorded time.The MR uploades the video data on a media server. The MR has a group video-calling feature.You can communicate between all MR. When wearing this MR, everyone can enjoy conversation and a video.
Securing the examination paper is very difficult for many counties which do not use electronic examination. This is because there are too many places that the exam will have the risk of being stolen.
A DUAL FASTENER MANIPULATION DEVICE can be used to manipulate two fasteners with the same axis of rotation and to manipulate the fasteners of the same axis of rotation separated by the intermediate material, and the spacing distance can be freely adjusted according to the size of the separated object.
In order to successfully join the two fasteners together,
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