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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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In college, I decided to get creative on a class project. We were asked to invent a technology for hybrid cars that had not been established. So, an electric engine powered by a solar battery pack could ultimately reduce wear and tear mileage and create a longer shelf life on vehicles. Correct? And, not to mention drastically decrease emissions.
Two-dimensional detector arrays of thermal infrared imagers are expensive, especially at medium and high resolutions. A 10,000 pixel imager costs about $1,600. An 80,000 pixel device costs about $5,500, and an imager with near 3x105 pixels costs about $20,000. Now assume that, instead of the bolometric arrays of present thermal imagers we place a thin,
Diagnostic methods are being used, requiring several days from sampling to results for infectious diseases in clinical laboratories worldwide. Elderly, pregnant and pediatric patients require timely, reliable and accurate diagnostics of bacterial infectants.
The aim of this project is the design, development and fabrication of a biosensor,
Atlantic Motor Labs, Inc. (AML) was formed to commercialize the hydraulic & pneumatic motor design developed by founder Braden Murphy, who recently received the Governor General’s Gold Medal for his engineering graduate work at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) on the design. His designs are novel compared to existing technology, being half the size and weight, powerful, efficient, versatile and modular.
The impact of climate change on coastal communities in the Canadian and other circumpolar Arctic requires building more robust sustainable community infrastructure with less dependency on outside resources.
This design provides a large amount of aperture in a package that is well suited for transport into space. Instead of the large disc of a conventional telescope, the Compact Space Telescope's primary mirror assembly is an array of thin mirrors and baffles forming a long parabolic trough making it a great match for a cargo hold. Also,
PRODUCT: SKILL CAPACITY© is a user-customizable, mobile skills assessment and performance evaluation “template” that will provide any DoD/SOF training program, skills evaluation program, etc., with the ability to identify, define and grade tangible fundamental skills (PST), advanced technical/tactical/physical (motor, psycho-motor) skills or the intangible and or, cognitive, learned,
The exquisite sensitivity and specificity of antibody based assays is limited by their discontinuous nature. Separate samples must be withdrawn and tested to determine changes in the concentration of an analyte over time. This proposal focuses on a way to make antibody-based assays continuous, i.e.,
Human /Powered Hybridized Vehicles
Bicycles are one of history’s most efficient machines converting up to 95% of rider energy into forward motion. Automobiles don’t come close to the efficiency of bicycles.
Nowadays it is really difficult to move around big cities. Traffic jams and rush hour in public transportation make the trip from home to the job a real nightmare for lots of people.
The Personal Movility Vehicle proposes a fast, fun and efficient solution for urban transportation problems.
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