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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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I have an idea to make the road safe and road signs interactive, by using a screen in the car with installing receiver device and installing transmitter device into road signs which will transfer the data from the sign to the car's screen to inform the driver by the data in the sign as alarm or even warning. Also,
Overview :
Present day transportation is all based upon vehicles driving on the road. MegProp idea is a concept which states that rather it should be the road that should drives the vehicles. How? Let's See.
Basic Principle:
Take two magnets and a sheet of cardboard. Place one magnet M1 above the sheet and one magnet M2 below.
Fullspeed Technology Inc. is a Canadian company led by Greg Ahira, an entrepreneur whose vision is to create and bring to market innovative productions. Fullspeed is developing a unique test strip product, “RightMix Strips,” that displays the mixture ratio of oil and fuel used in a two-stroke engine.
My ear plugs are the only dry plugs that are designed to be used underwater and are for all water activities.
Current dry earplugs for water activities (swimming etc.) create a .45lb psi pressure differential between the earplug and the ear drum for every 1' they are submerged below the surface,
Introducing the AIRcable Smart Dimmer, a new in-wall light dimmer switch, designed with one driving criteria in mind: ease of use.
No complicated setup, unreliable powerline communication or wireless infrastructure is required to remotely control house lighting.
Ease Of Use Design
The AIRcable Smart Dimmer is elegantly designed with a standard deco rocker and tactile feedback.
Abstract of "The Solution to the Gas Turbine Temperature Problem" by Ronald W. Satz in Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 20, pp. 49-63. All previous Brayton cycle engines have utilized a separate compressor and expander and thus have been limited in temperature on the expander side. To overcome this limitation, the author has designed a new,
Currently, industrialized cities are implementing programs for waste separation. Although high costs are estimated for the selection process, the prisons have the possibility to become rehabilitation centers, intended to transform these institutions into clusters of production and selection of these materiales and stop being a burden on society.
The change must be radical.
The use of the "Brake light" system should be expanded to protect drivers in more situations. The term "Brake Lights" is a misnomer as the true intentions of the system is "please don't run into the back of me lights.
Many households do not consistently maintain their A/C filters (heating or cooling). Common education suggests that changing your filter every 30 days is sufficient. This catch-all number does not take into account the number of people, pets, other particle generators, or the location of the household.
The device I am currently working on is a very low cost,
Poultry production requires lots of heat and ventilation due to litter producing ammonia, etc. A heat exchanger made of large tubes (thin inexpensive plastic) will be cheap and less efficient, but very practical. Heat recovery will save lots of heating fuel during the baby chicken phase of broiler production.
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