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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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PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: In our modern and globalized world the dependence on fossil fuels for industrial and commercial companies is continuously increasing, gas, diesel or fuel oil #6 are of common use among this type of companies and they have serious problems to estimate long term operational costs due to fluctuating fuel prices and pollution problems due to CO2 emissions.
The Challenge
X-ray radiation exposure is a major concern for millions of travelers, baggage handlers, and workers in the medical industry and industrial and homeland security sectors. In 2011 the European Union has banned backscatter machines in airports due to uncertain X-ray radiation exposure,
The modern vehicles operate with lead-acid batteries, which are not environmentally correct, beyond the fact that they are expensive and have toxic products (sulfuric acid and the lead itself). In this work, a new idea is proposed in order to replace such electrochemical systems with new compounds. This new type of battery would be an aluminum-copper battery.
This device will function as a replacement for a human translator. But it is more powerful than a human. Two individuals speaking different languages will use this device to communicate by talking to the device.
The device will identify the language by recording a few sentences from person A and B.
When A wants to talk to B,
Forgetting an infant in a vehicle is a dangerous situation that has led to numerous infant deaths. A Pulitzer Prize winning article [Gene Weingarten, 2009 Washington Post] captures the heart of this devastating situation. Studies have shown that all parents have risk of forgetting a child regardless of education, occupation, or economic status.
If people are in a place without possibility to recharge mobile phone battery, this mechanical charger can help. The charger is built into a pencil. It consists of linear alternator, rectifier, capacitor, constant current source and LED. It can be used as pocked lamp if LED is switched on.
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The EDU-Book an instrument created to serve the student for the purposes of basic and extended learning in Mathematics, Languages and Critical Thinking. Other subjects may be included at the users' and teachers' options. The device is not game oriented. EDU-Book makes use of Adobe pdf files with optional audio prompts and excerpts.
For decades aerospace engineers have been warning of pollution saturation in the stratosphere/troposphere regions where commercial jets operate, and of the consequences of elevated ground level ozone generated at airports. This project initiates development of a hybrid aircraft engine that produces no unburned hydrocarbons at idle, low NOx at takeoff, and low CO2 at cruise.
This self-sustaining electricity generator needs to be located on a mountainside with a river flowing near it. The process begins with water evaporation using electricity to heat the water into its gaseous state. The steam engine is connected to an electric generator. From there, the steam rises through an insulated metal tube.
The thermoelectric effect is a reversible effect that allows the direct conversion between thermal energy and electric energy, without any intermediate step. This effect plays a key role in sensing, in generating electricity and cooling. The first examples of thin film thermoelectric devices are currently entering the market.
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