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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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eXoutcancer has invented a revolutionary technology for earlier lung cancer screening to diagnose the disease when it is more treatable. Lung cancer is the the number #1 killer among cancers and the current screening modality, a low dose computed tomography (CT) scan, is utilized in only 5% of the high-risk US population.
Steering mechanism of quad bikes, cars, military vehicles etc are based on rack-pinion gear mechanism whose moving parts often get exposed to terrain conditions like boulders and ice slabs in cold countries. These land features may hit the rack gear.
PrintIC is a unique technology for the realization of integrated circuits and system made only with carbon-based materials and employing only standard printing techniques (e.g. ink-jet, flexo, screen,...) that has been developed by FLEEP Technologies S.r.l., spin-off of the Italian Institute of Technology, operating in the printed electronics field.
ARIT
ARtificial Intelligent Telecommunication
We have designed a new telecommunication system. This new protocol is highly adaptable and promises to have massive data transfer by using few low frequencies in the spectrum.
The current paradigm in telecommunication is that the higher data rate, the higher the frequencies.
Facial protective masks are shown to be the "front-line" in controlling the spread of the COVID 19 virus. However, they have characteristics that can be enhanced by simple technical modifications.
Masks work by 1) mechanical submicron filtering of virus aerosols and 2) electrostatic bonding of virus aerosols to electrostatically charged mask material.
However,
Even with the most efficient engines on the market today a substantial portion of the energy content of fuel is lost via exhaust gases and engine cooling. What is proposed herein is a method of minimizing these losses by using the water in water emulsified fuel to absorb the majority the heat.
The laboratory is designed for modelling and subsequent electrical equipment printing of power stations and substations . No company in the field of power industry can do without design engineers as the process of designing is of paramount importance.
3D visualization of electrical equipment by means of different types of software is applied for customer needs (e.g.
S.F.P.D. utilizes terahertz (THz) electromagnetic wave technology to detect the residual plastic particles in the fish body. Before the fish sorting and classification, the plastic material detection will be first conducted. The fish containing the plastic particles are separated and cut through the fish processing slice to remove plastic particles.
In addition, S.F.P.D.
SURGICAL PROJECTOR is a surgical aided projection and lighting device designed for scarce medical resources areas such as battlefields and disaster areas, epidemic areas, operating rooms, and surgical education. It combines surgical aided projection, air sterilization, and lighting.
SURGICAL PROJECTOR can project surgical tips under poor light and inadequate medical equipment,
rAider (Refrigeration Artificial Intelligence DEmand Response) is a palm-sized IoT/controls package that uses big data and artificial intelligence with sensors to optimally control commercial refrigeration for food stores and the power grid. First, our IoT device collects refrigeration and environmental data from stores using sensors. The data wirelessly transmits to our cloud data storage.
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