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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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A Twin shrouded manned aerial vehicle has been fabricated from the combination of springtail and martin jetpacks. This made the system more advanced and controls feasible. The dynamic flight model, which can be run in real time, includes the reactions from ducted-fans, aircraft body aerodynamics, control surfaces,
Each American burns about 50 pounds of fossil fuels every day. Oil and gas supplies will not sustain this demand because the profitable reserves that greatly expanded the world’s economy are dwindling. Yet we lack renewable energy solutions that can heat and cool our homes, drive industrial thermal processes, or simply harvest enough of the sun’
“KOOL KORE – HOT MU” June, 29, 2015
Heat,T, generated in an electro-magnetic (e-m) core reduces the life time of the core and the core’s operational capability by reducing the core’s magnetic permeability (mu(T)). Therefore, it is undesirable to have heat in the magnetic core.
Numerous commerce and shipping companies are currently developing unmanned delivery concepts for every day products, but what about those not so usual types of cargo? For example, returning experiments from orbit or delivering critical supplies to remote disaster victims or other people in immediate need.
Every year, tens of thousands of fire engines, ambulances, and police vehicles collide with other vehicles driving in front of them or crossing at intersections. A world-wide accounting was not found in the literature, but in the United States the frequency, causes, and remedies are published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and others.
In recent years, the traffic safety issues becoming more important about how to further reduce casualties. In addition to the driver's attention to safety, how to protect the pedestrian safety is the focus of another need to think about. Road safety for the elderly, those with reduced mobility,
To solve a problem that is inherent with landscape lighting systems, I created a smart phone controlled lighting system installed in real river rocks. Liners in waterfall and stream applications do not allow stakes to support underwater lighting and these new Real Rock Lights will not move once in place above or below water.
The challenge areas are pertaining to Puncture of tyre in a vehicle, need of wheel balancing by use of carcinogenic material Lead, leakage of air/nitrogen from tyre resulting in low fuel efficiency and local overheating of tyre causing tyre bursts and decrease in tyre life.
Gun magazines that can hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition are generally considered “high capacity” magazines. Laws in multiple states prohibit these high capacity magazines for civilian use. In order to still be able to carry a lot of ammunition, civilians are forced to carry many 10-round magazines creating unnecessary bulk, weight,
Donald W. Collins, Ph.D., has been involved in developing the ACADZ 3D STL Radiation Compensator Negative Plastic Mold Filter Conversion Software/Hardware - “Combined Package” to convert the DICOM RT Optimal Fluence Patient Treatment Plan Files (.dcm) into 3D (.stl) code files to be used on a 3D Printer for printing 3D Compensator Negative Plastic Molds. This ACADZ “Combined Package”
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