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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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Have you ever been routed incorrectly by your Global Positioning System (GPS)? The fact is that many of us would be lost without GPS navigation. However, this technology is not fail-safe, as it relies on a combination of signals from a complex satellite and ground station network. This is problematic in aerospace and defense,
Kinetic Intelligent Transportable Energy (KITE) is an innovative technology for generating electricity in remote and underdeveloped regions of the world. As a deployable, small-scale system, KITE would bring relief to communities stricken by natural disaster or otherwise devoid of the infrastructure necessary to support centralized electrical generation. A single KITE could power a refrigerator, a pump,
Applied Silicone announces a sterilizable delivery system that will allow EtO sterilization of the pre-filled dual syringe and deliver small quantities of the sterile liquid silicone rubber (LSR) directly to the point of treatment in minimally invasive medical procedures.
QVLA is an LED based technology used for industrial position sensing. It utilizes an ultra-stable LED light source to fill a volume, such as a pneumatic cylinder, with diffuse light. As the amount of light measured within this volume changes, the resulting change can be resolved into linear or rotary motion. The resulting sensors are rugged, inexpensive, fast,
Science and Technology is entering a phase where it will outwit humans in intelligence as well as efficiency in all aspects. Man has now found a way in which he can keep pace with technology, and one of the recently wide spreading developments in this regard is the brain chip implant.
Thermotray is an innovative household appliance consisting of a food dome and tray made from stainless steel, specially designed to preserve warm meals without any need to reheat them. Along with the increase of commuters in urban cities,
Fracture of materials often starts from a crack of the nano or micro scale. The Self healing composite produced mends these cracks before they propagate and lead to fracture. The composite is composed of DIglycidal Ether of BIsphenol A ( DGEBA) cured by Triethylene Tetramine (TETA) and microcapsules of TETA encapsulated in a Poly(methyl methacrylate) shell.
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The global population of people older than 60 years will more than double, from 542 million in 1995 to ~1.2 billion in 2025, and these people need dedicated Elderly Care, because many of them suffer from physical and mental decline. Now the ideas of “ubiquitous computing” and “Internet-of-things”
Micro-coil springs provide flexible electrical interconnections and allow significant movement in the x, y, and z axes to counteract the thermal expansion and dynamic forces between a microcircuit and a printed circuit board.
The present invention's primary-embodiment is a sand-anchored, double-layered flexible fiber-reinforced plastic-barrier which can be used to sequester liquids released from chemical, nuclear or sewage processing-plants, and to capture oil and gases that might be released from underwater-oil-drilling-platforms, as a consequence of hurricanes, earthquakes,
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