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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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ATOM-1.0 Humanoid Robot Vision.
It is important in today’s modern age of technology to have pioneers push forward to reach greater achievements. The pioneer must have a vision, determination and not be easily discouraged by lack of project funding or criticism. Without great thinkers whose vision been before their time, where would our current technology stand.
Road crashes are a leading cause of deaths each year, with an average of 3,290 deaths a day, totaling to 1.3 million deaths each year, worldwide. In the U.S. alone, there are over 37,000 deaths due to road crashes each year, with an additional 2.35 million people who are injured or disabled. Per annum, this roughly costs $231 billion.
Huckleberry's Hammer is a multi tool designed by a truck driver for truck drivers which combines many necessary tools into one compact, light-weight, yet sturdy tool.
As the name suggests, this tool combines a hammer for thumping tires, frozen brake drums, trailer door latches and padlocks. There is a chisel for chipping ice off of pintle hitches,
Increasingly environmental issues highlight the contribution of automotive vehicles in the emissions of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In the automotive market, actions to curb this effect focus on more stringent emission limits and significant investments to support the development of alternative technologies to the internal combustion engine, as plug-in electric vehicles. Moreover,
It's a combination of a conventional leaf spring & parabolic leaf spring.
By using parabolics we are able to reduce the weight of the existing leaf spring about 12Kgs. per spring assembly. All other parameters are kept constant to meet the vehicle requirement.
Railway is one of the most important forms of transportations in India. In India, especially in Chennai, the average speed of the electric train is 100 kmph (62 miles per hour).
While the train is running, the pressure is decreased on the atmosphere near the surface of the train.
According to Bernoulli's law, as the train starts and gains momentum,
Use of photochromatic windshield on vehicles eliminating the need of sun visors.
(1) Protecting the driver's eyes from sharp, direct sunlight which may be a distraction while driving.
(2) Preventing the need for the driver to take his hand off the steering wheel to open the sun visor.
(3) Preventing glare from the headlights of oncoming traffic during night driving.
2015 was an uneasy year for automakers because of Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) emission scandal in tests. Up to 40-times higher NOx emission was reported in some diesel engine cars. NOx gases are very hazardous to the environment and because of this they must be constrained by special norms like Euro 6 and preceding.
Device for carrying mobile advertising images in subways
Therefore: it is considered as if it projects a series of images with a bright optical device mounted on a moving body, those images accompany the body to the velocity of same body (vehicle).
Train moving in a tunnel can carry a projection device, like projectors in cinemas,
Demand of fossil fuels used for energy generation is growing, resulting in emissions of carbon dioxide and other contaminant particles. In the last twenty years the global primary energy consumption grew 45% (BP 2011), increasing emissions of carbon dioxide between 1993 and 2011 by 44%. The excessive presence of these particles in the Earth's atmosphere intensifies the greenhouse effect,
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