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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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Unique, flexible, platform suspension technology suitable for mass manufacture, helps enable the lowest carbon emission, fully enclosed, fully powered, manned road vehicle. Achieved by IP for space and parking efficient, narrow, small frontal area, low aerodynamic drag, ultra-compact, fully enclosed, tilting, ultra-lightweight, tandem seat, commercially viable, personnel, commercial, taxi,
I have a design that uses a solar panel to convert sunlight into electricity that is stored in a sealed lead-acid (SLA) battery. The power from the battery is then used in the evenings to power LED lighting. LEDs and solar power go well together.
INTERNAL COMPRESSION MOTOR
I have a patent on a motor that generates compressed air that is used to run. The attached file (video)
shows the workings of the motor, the sequence is as follows.
1) As the intake pressure chamber expels its contents and the power piston continues its cycle down to bottom dead enter, and the swing valve remains open,
Most vehicles currently have a practical Fuel Efficiency of about 15%. In other words, of the total heat energy contained in fuel, only about 15% of it is put to use in moving the vehicle. However, the engines powering these vehicles have about 34% Fuel Efficiency when held at their most efficient Revolutions-Per-Minute (RPM).
In the field of alternative energy Design Desk Inc is addressing a void in the mechanics of design. Most of our concepts deal with cycling pneumatic pressure in a closed system. The attached pneumatic electric generator will provide current for a self charging unlimited range electric vehicle.
Using chemical propulsion (actual rockets) are not a viable solution. Just to send a crew of six people to Mars we need at least 9150 oxygen tanks, 1180 gallons of water, 280 full grocery shopping carts.
For each 100 tons of cargo that we want to put in orbit we need 85,000 tons of rockets. In other words,
Introducing the Healthiest Capsule on Earth!
HIMALAYAN Salt-Air POD
Himalayan Salt Cleanses & Rejuvenates the Body
• Self-Automated Programs (18) / Natural Technologies (10)
A Purifying Cleansing Passive Workout!
The valve stems on the wheels of automobiles can be turned into a self-powered, electronic pressure sensor which can send pressure data to the car or cell phone to alert the driver to changes in the tire pressure. This would provide an early warning for any flat tires, low pressure or overpressure situations. Also,
Goglio Milling Systems has designed a new milling head for milling machines.
At left there is one picture of a NTX 200 milling machine and one picture of the new milling head type with continuous positioning. Actually, the new head type looks like the old one.
The precision of the angular positioning is 0.001°,
This is a complete system which can be controlled by mobile SMS. It can be used as an entertainment system for playing audio and video files through SMS. It can also be used as a security system where the user can view the image or video of any one who enters his/her home or office at any time,
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