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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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This is a simple peripheral designed to recondition the used papers which may still be able to be reused by removing all the text or images printed on the paper and then polished like a new sheet of paper. Why? Because paper is still desperately needed despite existing digital media, primarily in Asia.
The cost of fuel (diesel/petrol) to drive vehicles is increasing every day and all automobile companies are searching for alternate fuel or renewable source of technology. Great research is going on in development of hybrid vehicles (where one source of energy is engine and another may be electric or other).
The conventional speed breakers have become back breakers at low speed and life breaker at high speed because of more accidents due to sudden hump and poor visibility. Many accidents are caused because of inadequate illumination of the speed breaker. Although speed bumps are effective in keeping vehicle speed down,
When using devices with cords or wires, many times there is a need to temporarily attach the wire to something. Devices such as MP3 players, mobile phones and other electronic applications have earphones or hands free devices where the wiring can get entangled or in the way. A sudden shock can remove ear pieces or damage connectors.
The application “Patient Care” focuses on patients who need medical attention and face various degrees of difficulty while communicating with the outside world. This project was taken up based on the advice of medical professionals who felt that there is a stringent need for a cheap, easy to use communication device for their patients.
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) bans any nuclear explosions, for military or civil purposes. Until treaty ratification, a verification process is being undertaken for the establishment of a robust international monitoring system (IMS) for treaty compliance.
I have built and used a totally portable solar heater while camping, household use, emergencies, and businesses.
The idea is quite simple and proven. A dark surface, when exposed to sunlight, quickly heats up, which heats up any surrounding fluid, in this case air.
Supercomputers are linked worldwide, creating ultra-high performance cloud, utility, and grid computers. The Bandwidth-Delay Product (BWDP), where “delay” is the round trip time for data transfer, defines required buffer memory. Grid-X is a SeaFire innovation that addresses BWDP, and enables faster local and globally distributed supercomputing at lower power and cost.
All-Seasons Body Cooling/Warming Vest is a special product designed to counter the harmful effects of hot or cold weather stress, lowering or increasing skin temperature, which in turn stabilizes the core body temperature. This allows a person to stay cool or warm and sustain the peak performance levels for much longer.
Many parts of the world, e.g., Africa, Middle East, Southern Asia and Australia, have severe shortages of fresh water for agriculture, let alone for drinking. Many of these locations are close to large saltwater bodies with plenty of sunlight available year round. Thus,
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