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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 1938 Walter Adams discovered that cyanogen molecules floating in near absolute zero interstellar space were spinning and tumbling. Found to be powered by cosmic background radiation which is in 99% of the known Universe. The cyanogen molecule rotate like an armature in a nano sized electrostatic engine. Or,
With the amount of vehicles that ply on the roads every day, and with plenty of unused energy dissipated in no useful work, the proposed system would change the way the roads are used and built.
This technology would utilize the roads as power generation stations, by employing cheap sheets of piezoelectric transducers,
Conception and demonstration of a new pathology device. Initially, a non-invasive glucometer for the mass market, to extend the use of the device to facilitate the diagnosis and screening for multiple other diseases and disorders. These inventions and developments have been protected by patent.
Currently, there is no device on the market that will secure entire panels, rack mounted components, or many other similar controls mounted on flat surfaces such as the Panel Lock locking cover will. These types of controls may need to be locked out or guarded for purposes of safety, quality, configuration, security, or tamper-proofing.
Imagine for a moment, a reasonably priced automobile with 5 or even 11 different sized engines in it, one for every driving situation from creeping along in traffic to safely towing a large boat or travel trailer up a mountain.
The patent pending RSK-185 is a lithium-ion battery powered rotary tool to safely remove the criss-crossed outer layers made of high strength spring steel on umbilical cables. These cables are used to control and power ROV vehicles (remotely operated underwater vehicles). Previously the only way to cut these cables was to use a rotary hand grinder;
You’re watching one of the hundreds of movies you have watched over the years where friends and families anxiously await the arrival of their loved-ones at an airport. There’s the mandatory shot of the airplane approaching from the distance, it hangs momentarily over the runway and then finally touches down,
One of the big challenges to homeschoolers is providing for lab classes such as AP physics. There are suppliers like Pasco that supply most of the lab equipment you find in high school and college classrooms. But their prices are prohibitive for home schooling families.
In this era of fast growing medical and health facilities, there are still a considerable amount of people who are paraplegic; they are either born or became so in their lifetime. These people find it very difficult to move from one place to another or need to depend on others most of the time for the same.
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