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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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Arguably, man-made climate change represents potentially greater peril than global thermonuclear war. Carbon-free renewable-energy transformation, previously “economically beneficial,” becomes essential. Pending Earthbound thermonuclear power, stellar (solar-generated) hydrogen offers optimal alternatives. Given real-estate,
Imagine a world where outer space is not all that distant. It is a world where we all can take a spacewalk – not just a select few astronauts. It is a world where people travel from the Earth to Mars, maybe not regularly, but it’s as simple as booking a ticket. It’ 
The first classical transistor was invented at Bell Labs in 1947, which gave rise to the electronics industry of the 20th century. However, Moore’s law – which has described the rapid technological developments of this industry – will soon come to an end. Once the features of the transistor hardware are reduced in length to approximately ten atoms across,
The project has its bases in two existing technologies. The first one is a multirotor drone and the second is an articulated robot. Their combination results in a DROBOT. The main purpose of this project is to combine both flexibility characteristics to ensure feasibility of some tasks.
Significant turbulence is created by airflow from moving vehicles. This turbulent air is an untapped, kinetic-energy resource. This turbulence is difficult to harness due to the chaotic intensity and irregular vectors of the energy. A system—HEAT—is proposed to convert this turbulence into useful electric current. This turbulence is predictable and sustainable,
ThorPad combines the well-known mushroom-shaped interface of the conventional suction cup with the amazing adhesive properties of modern polymers.
It's based on the principle of water jet cutting. It gives the combined effect of water jet cutting and surface drilling operation to overcome the drilling problems by this design on the basis of anticipation of potential hole problems, such as drill hole deviation and high hardness rocks.
Air pollution is a major threat in the ever growing urban lanscapes: here, we propose a crowd monitoring system, where air control is done by eveyone for everybody.
This design provides an effective solution to check air quality and share real-time measurements all over the community.
Earth attracts objects creating pressure on everything on its surface. When something takes in latent heat it pushes against enormous atompheric pressure to expand this expansion or combustion in case of fuel later when condenses creates a vacuum equal to tons of atmospheric pressure which can be effectively used.
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