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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 Beam Irradiance on Target System (BITS) is a high energy laser (HEL) sensor array that directly measures the beam irradiance profile of HEL weapons.
Energy Intelligence aims to create a novel road-based energy-harvesting system capable of generating over 100kW of cheap, clean distributed power onsite at industrial facilities with regular heavy-duty traffic. The system will consist of an array of electro-mechanical devices embedded in stretches of road where vehicles are required to slow down or stop.
It is known that the analysis of the water quality is long time procedure and requires expensive analytical equipment. We offer fast (less than 10 minutes) and an effective method of water quality monitoring using the developed method for measuring the refractive index based on the phenomenon of surface plasmon resonance (SPR).
SkyAuto:
SkyAuto will be a two-seater VTOL [Vertical Take Off &Landing Aircraft]. Having three small jet engines mounted at three sides of the VTOL, it will fly using "auto-pilot." My aim is to make it for defense transportation with enhanced security and advanced navigation.
Unsecured loads are an everyday hazard and danger to all, drivers, passengers, motorist, motorcyclist on the road, and our environment. The problem is that unsecured loads cause 440 fatalities,
I have created a solar spinning top for wind turbines and other applications. The solar photovoltaic cells rotate at high RPM's on domes and conical shapes while providing power to bicycles, cars, segways, wheelchairs, skateboards, prosthetics, airplanes, frisbees, and many other agendas.
We have been issued two patents:
Patent #8,338,977
Patent #8,354,75....and others pending worldwide for rotating solar photovoltaics.
Home design that provides a minimal obstruction to the high winds of a tornado. Picture shows the basic concept and should be noted that hundreds of different designs are possible.
Water scarcity and desertification are well-known problems for the poorest regions of the world. Atmospheric water generators could provide the solution, but they are complicated, expensive and they need additional energy for operation.
For the critical regions the requirements are defined by the lack of money,
Planetary gear-sets can be incorporated in the design of an IC engine by replacing the conventional style crankshaft. This concept could be used in IC engines of all sizes, two or four stroke, gas or diesel, the only stipulation being, in its simplest form, the architecture be that of a “boxer” opposed cylinder configuration.
The main obstacle in the development of hybrid vehicles is economic: fuel savings pain to compensate for additional investment costs. A new hybrid series-parallel architecture should improve this situation, by lowering the power of the electrical equipment, thus their costs and by reducing the energy conversions, thus the energy losses.
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