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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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The SM-39 is a next generation air superiority fighter and fighter-bomber. Designed to perform the missions of the F-22, F-15, F/A-18E/F and the now retired F-14 Tomcat and A-6 Intruder, the SM-39 is a twin engine, piloted or unpiloted autonomous, low observable aircraft. With two internal weapon bays,
The Nortilus is a human powered underwater pleasure craft.
Suspended from floatation devices and an integral snorkel, it allows the operator an underwater experience just feet below the water surface. The pedal arrangement turns a rear mounted propeller and hand controlled levers which provide rudder movement for directional control.
Problem Description:
Whenever we start our cars on a gradient, there is always the possibility of it moving down the slope while accelerating and leaving the clutch pedal.
Solution/Idea:
I have designed a wheel hub in which an additional ratchet wheel will be attached which can be engaged or disengaged with the main wheel hub,
An o-ring that is designed to replace standard o-rings in SAE J1453 o-ring face seal hydraulic fitting adapters. The o-ring is designed to eliminate warranty concerns with blowouts at the Face Seal end that also prevent oil leaks in hydraulic fitting adapters.
Features of this design:
Standard O-ring materials such as Nitrile Elastomer, EPDM,
With Technology the solar cell's limits with todays latest advancements are the size of coverage for the power produced.
My idea is to layer the solar cells one on top of the next,
Most of the companies in Mombasa have been recycling plastic waste, glasses,and metallic waste leaving the heap of organic waste which forms 75% of the total garbage.
Open-air markets, beach hotels, fast food restaurants, and homes produce more than 200 tons of organic waste per day. The majority being fruits and vegetables.
Michelle is a novel training dummy with the purpose of improving quality of executed CardioPulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). This to improve survival chances of victims suffering Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA), and to lower the amount of brain damage victims suffer during CPR.
Based on paper : Meyburg et.al. 2009 One Liver for Four Children: First Clinical Series of Liver Cell Transplantation for Severe Neonatal Urea Cycle Defects
( DOI: 10.1097/TP.0b013e318199936a ) : "The cell suspension was applied manually over 20 to 60 min per session and was gently shaken during the procedure to avoid cell sedimentation.
The Hyperion solar array would be a constellation of transpolar satellites equipped with retractable reflective dishes. When deployed, the dishes redirect sunlight toward any asteroid or comet that threatens the Earth. The redirected sunlight can be used in many ways. The primary purpose being the study and destruction of metiors and comets that threaten Earth.
The insulated pulse-combustion engine is a reciprocating piston engine concept which explores the five pathways of non-productive energy export from internal combustion engines (thermal conduction, exhaust heat, exhaust pressure, exhaust pollution, and mechanical losses) in an effort to improve fuel economy. This concept combines principle attributes of the Diesel engine (unthrottled induction and high compression ratio),
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