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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 doorbell light is a combination "smart" doorbell actuator and home entry light. It features a microcontroller-based touchless doorbell chime actuator that is triggered by breaking a modulated beam of Infrared energy with the touch of a finger.
An attachment utility that allows a person to easily pick up and carry a recycle (or any similar utility) box with one hand, and without bending over, to the curb or central collection depot. By using the attachment utility to carry the box by the person's side,
This technology purifies water from impaired sources and is capable of separating water into ion free and concentrated streams.
A nano-channel-based filtration and desalination system that can continuously supply fresh water from polluted salinated water using only a small battery and the gravity flow of water.
BACKGROUND:
Pathogens, parasites, organisms, suspended silt,
Manta Ray™ is the answer to the growing problem of illegal and contraband cell phones in correctional facilities, government buildings and law enforcement agencies. Like handheld metal detectors, this unique cell phone detection device is a close range security scanner but unlike metal detectors, Manta Ray detects only concealed mobile phones (ON or OFF) and nothing else.
P.E.A.S ~ Portable Emergency Alert System
I had a motorcycle wreck early in the morning as I was on my way to work. I went off the road as a result of the oncoming car failing to "DIM THEIR LIGHTS!" The morning was dark, cold and wet due to an earlier rain shower.
A Compressed-air engine is a pneumatic actuator that creates useful work by expanding compressed air. A compressed-air vehicle is powered by an air engine, using compressed air, which is stored in a tank. Instead of mixing fuel with air and burning it in the engine to drive pistons with hot expanding gases,
It is a known fact that the two basic engine types, internal combustion engine and external combustion engine are individually not very efficient, as neither of them has efficiency greater than 40%. This is because of the fact that when a fossil fuel burns,
Due to lack of cold storage facilities and packed food processing facilities in developing countries most of the vegetables and other crops get rotten within week of harvest. By drying the vegetables and crops they can be preserved for longer periods and the supply of vegetables and crops can be extended up to six month or longer.
This system uses air pressure vented unto an impeller to cause rotation of a re-designed electric motor with a hydraulic pump and electromagnetic clutch attached to the armature's drive shaft. The re-designed electric motor has an electromagnetic clutch that advances the field coil of the electric motor.
My invention is a typical lead acid battery with contacts located underneath. What this allows is ease of connecting such batteries within all sorts of vehicles. Simply drop it in and contact is made. No more pigtails to contend with that are difficult to clean, remove and install.
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