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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 laboratory diagnosis of malaria has changed little in over 100 years. A finger stick is made and a smear on a glass slide is made and stained and a technologist then uses a microscope to scan over the whole smear which may take up to 15 minutes.
The Retro Reflection Panel works like a mirror. Assume you are in a battlefield and you want to do the job in stealth mode without the enemies knowing your presence. With the help of Retro Reflection Panels installed on you jet or any other aircraft,
To measure, record, and analyze the vibration and movements of the earth, structures, as well as exploration of underground reserves and study the behavior of the structure of the earth layers, this sensor was designed.
Various methods such as changes in resistance, capacitance or electrical induction,
The main idea in this entry was to introduce a methodology and concludingly an optimized geometry for a commercial reactive muffler for noise reduction in auto applications. Due to a large number of variables (geometrical and mode) involving in the topology optimization of the common commercial mufflers,
In road transport, on ships and diesel locomotives, a significant share in the cost of production is the cost of fuel (over 30%). Measures to control its overspending are reduced by the installation of flow sensors/meters, which allows you to state the fact of overspending, to record theft, but not to manage the causal overspending.
It is a conveyor belt that transports a product from one belt to another at 90°
This design was built for the exit of a cooling tunnel for frozen chocolates, where there was practically no space.
Current shock absorbing technology uses either a foam or gel material. While both are soft and flexible, unless used in a thick manner, they will under time and pressure flatten out resulting in a hard surface. Thickness is an important feature in that the thinner the better for most applications.
Hello ladies and gentlemen, I present to you a little experiment of how to develop a Star Wars cannon type ion turbo laser. The critical phase of each laser created is the pumping phase, that is the phase that allows the irradiation of photons in phase.
Viscoelastic materials such as pressure sensitive adhesives are used as constrained damping layers in a variety of applications. Historically, materials such as foams and acrylic and rubber adhesives have been popular choices. However, in the aerospace and defense markets, innovation is occurring at a rapid pace. For example,
The “Comet Towed Ion Propelled Spacecraft” is a concept design for a spacecraft utilizing a combination of modified solar power arrays (for onboard energy production) and ion propulsion thrusters (for thrust and speed), which will utilize the energy provided by the ion tail of a comet passing through the solar system.
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