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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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Mobile phones have become a hugely important tool for almost everyone, even in remote parts of the world such as rural Africa where banking over SMS is very popular. However in these places it can also be difficult and expensive to charge a phone.
DUALITY was born with a great ambition: Becoming the first car in the world that fully meets requirements of an off-road and race car.
But how to harmonize these extremes? The vehicle has four sets composed for: Two tires (one off road and the other for high speeds), two hexagonal polymers (for high impact absorption),
Internal combustion engine is the most efficient and economical on-road power machinery and maintains the dominant role on the market. Among them, SI engines occupied a much higher proportion on the light vehicle engine markets than diesel engine. However thermal efficiency of SI engine is not satisfying and ideal, especially at high speed and load operations.
Fish-like Propulsion and Control Articulated by Elastomeric Bearing-Seals
Elastomeric thrust bearings comprise stacks of alternate rubber and metal layers, all bonded together and under compression from a normal load. Illustrated layers are greatly exaggerated in thickness, but are actually so thin (tenths of 1 mm) that they can't squeeze out from between equally thin metal layers.
The working, full size prototype boat can be used to provide humanitarian relief in shallow waters and can be easily beached and left aground (sits level) as a generating station. The boat can be an operating room, clinic, blood transfusion lab, med school annex or placed on a trailer for over road transport.
We have seen many water bottles being used and dumped after emptied leading to piles of recyclable plastic clearly a hazard to human health. The recent stats show that 38 billion water bottles were thrown away and more than $1 billion of plastic was wasted in the US alone in the last year. Moreover,
This concept came after watching “The Martian” and seeing news footage of a earthquake relief camp. “The Martian” showed an inflatable habitat used on Mars, while the news showed people still living in nylon tents years after the earthquake.
Inflatable structures use an inflated spine to form the shape with plastic walls. More complex structures also are inflatable,
Our ultra-small inverter, designed in 2015, allows converting DC high voltage into residential AC voltage. A prototype was built in Q3 2015. Existing similar converters currently on the market are more than 30 times bigger.
Our tiny design enables new opportunities, especially in the renewable energy field. Indeed,
This program will collaborate with the skilled automotive technicians in Cuba to convert the hundreds of vintage American vehicles in the region from the 1950s to electric drivetrains, while maintaining their historic exterior bodies and interiors. Today most of these vehicles are operating on their 3rd or 4th gasoline or diesel engine drivetrains procured from Russia, Korea, and Japan.
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