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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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NiobiCon™ is a self-insulating underwater connector technology invented by engineers at Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC). The technology is novel in that it uses transition metals such as niobium, element number 41 on the periodic table, as electrical contacts that will not short out, corrode, or cause an electrical shock if touched while powered in harsh environments like saltwater. 
The name exo derives from exotic plasma is an exotic material, it is a gaseous state thermally agitated by electromagnetic induction and ions. Once converted to plasma we compress and accelerate it. Connected in series with a jet engine or turbofan, we combine heaven and earth in a vector capable of unprecedented power.
A Diesel Bleeding Mechanism, is a Simple machine that is used to bleed any Heavy Duty Vehicle HDV, for the purpose of pumping diesel inside the injector to as to start any diesel vehicle for the first time, or as to start e vehicle which diesel has cutting off.
The EnviroCool Hybrid Super Truck is a unique patented solution integrating new and existing technology into a single platform. It quickly upgrades any class 6-8 vehicle to save up to 40% fuel. This results in an immediate drop in toxic emissions and total cost of ownership.
The Global Status Report on Road released by WHO suggests that a staggering 1.35 million road accidents happen worldwide annually. This has forced the governments worldwide to adopt legislation that make it mandatory to have a few ADAS applications in automobiles in order to improve road safety.
In the recent time of the global pandemic, it was observed that the world is incapable of handling pandemic situations like COVID-19. The primary factor which leads to a catastrophic level pandemic is overpopulation (also dense population) & contemporary lifestyle of humanity.
To curb or to avoid such a disaster world has adopted a strategy of “Social Distancing.
This gearbox has a large gear ratio (500), despite its compact size. The first stage is made in the form of a planetary gearbox, and the second in the form of a wave transmission. The device has a fairly good kinematic error, a large output torque,
Concentrated heat loads i.e., very high heat fluxes from electronic components present significant thermal management challenges in defense, space, and commercial applications. Such high heat fluxes increase the temperature of components beyond permissible operational limits.
To increase the processing speed and reduce the power consumption of electronic devices, the microelectronics industry continues to push for increasingly smaller feature sizes. Realizing this miniaturization will require the development of robust resist materials as templates to transfer circuit patterns into device-useful substrates such as silicon. Brookhaven National Laboratory’
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