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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 United States is not ready for the effects of climate change and the future demand for power.
It’s abundantly clear that the power grid in the United States is not ready for the effects of climate change, including the extreme weather events that come with it. After all,
Have you ever seen a wireless signal? Me neither, but Endpoint Security technology sees a naturally occurring fingerprint in every signal. These fingerprints can be seen by us when plotted on the surface of a sphere. They are unique to each device transmitting a signal and are quite stable for IoT devices that are fixed in place,
The SafRSEATS Seat Belt Restraint System was conceived with the goal of retrofitting mass transit vehicles, especially school buses and tour buses, with a secure and cost-effective seat belt restraint system to increase passenger safety, in particularly children who primarily ride on school buses and elderly individuals who are overwhelmingly the majority of passengers on tour buses.
In this fan prototype small magnets with strong flux are placed in a circular pattern by a support. The copper coils are wound on every fin of the fan. When the fan starts to rotate there will be a change in magnetic flux between the coil and the magnet that is supported. So that a induced current is produced.
Sanitary Single-Handle Water Faucet
A single-handle water faucet comprises a hollow base which mounts on the top-back portion of a sink, a valve assembly, a handle for controlling the flow rate of water and the temperature mix of water,
There was a long felt need to provide a simple and economic trolley unit, for the roadside garage mechanic which is unequivocally efficient for lifting a motorcycle with ease and comfort for its servicing and maintenance. The present embodiment herein provides a trolley unit,
in this contemporary era, now nearly 18% of electricity is generated by NPP. This distribution is probably similar for continental Europe and Russia, though UK nuclear power plants use only once-through cooling by seawater, as do all Swedish, Finnish, Canadian (Great Lakes water), South African, Japanese, Korean and Chinese plants.
Wireless power based on the Qi standard has established itself as the preferred technology for charging mobile devices in cars, homes, and common spaces worldwide. A broad ecosystem of thousands of interoperable devices has been built over the years, and the majority of OEMs now include wireless charging stations in their vehicles.
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FineHeart has recently developed a device called the ICOMS FLOWMAKER. The Implantable Cardiac Output Management System (ICOMS) is an innovative hybrid between a pacemaker and a cardiac assist device. The technology was derived on a similar premise of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), improving the heart’s rhythm, but targets the much larger patient population whose heart failure is mechanical,
The general purpose of the paintbrush grip is to improve the manner in which a paintbrush is held and used. When used on a paintbrush, it allows for optimal alignment of the joints of the fingers, and thumb and positions the paintbrush close to the axis of movement of the user’s hand at the user’s wrist joint.
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