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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 Hydrogen Economy is most often refereed to in conjunction with hydrogen powered automobiles, whose hydrogen is, ironically, most often produced from hydrocarbons. The barriers to this scheme are enormous. What is outlined here, in contrast, are the means to replace the steam generators in conventional electric power plants with hydrogen-fired steam generators.
Lumotive is empowering a new era in autonomy and augmented reality with tiny, low-cost and ubiquitous lidar (light detection and ranging). Our highly-scalable lidar platform leverages unique beam-steering technology based on patented Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces™ to deliver an unprecedented combination of high performance and readiness for mass adoption as measured by cost, 
The RVA series of valves were designed to permit the repair of failed valves without the need to remove the cylinder head of the engine. In all curent engine designs the failure of a valve requires access to both the outer and inner portion of the cylinder in which the valve has failed;
1) The continuous development and possible use of flying cars and delivery drones on the open sky over the city and metropolitan areas can through the time overcrowd the sky and originate Challenger-like accidents, felling cars, careless drivers, bad guys use its for terrorism, etc.
LoveMyUVShield is a headwear device protecting anyone wearing it against pathogens and viruses. It can be used as an additional measure of protection, or eliminate the need to wear masks and other protective means when in public settings. LoveMyUVShield is safe for travel, easily stored, and lasts for over 13 hours using alkaline AA batteries that may be rechargeable.
For over 30 years several countries, especially in Latin America and Africa, have been facing increasing epidemic crises caused by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. However, the methods implemented to fight this species failed to contain the mosquito proliferation, since there is no real-time and effective mapping of the affected regions.
Hydrogen powered Airship Concept for Medical and Vaccination Response
Inspired by global issues of having healthcare access, combined with the limitations of current aerial technologies in regards of emissions; the Aeromaric - name of the airship - conceptualize air-travel for medical service. It utilizes 3 independent hybrid electric powertrains with the proven HT-PEM Fuel Cell technology onboard.
Electricity is considered non-renewable energy due to its production by means of coal plants and thermal plants.Therefore, it has to be sustained by humans. But I have a conceptual idea for producing electricity through means of converting wave form of energy to electric energy.
So you are back to your commute, and find the price of gas has gone up 50% or more, perhaps impacting your budget and causing you to consider more fuel-efficient driving. That live miles-per-gallon (MPG) on your digital display might help,
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