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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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As noted by other entrants, vast quantities of water is wasted as a result of flushing toilets. Not that I recommend not flushing your toilet!
The basic idea is that the much of this water can be saved by replacing it as the carrier medium with a hydrocarbon alternative.
The 2000 presidential election debacle revealed serious flaws in U.S. voting systems. Ambiguity in a “butterfly” ballot design caused many voters to select Pat Buchanan by mistake. Ambiguity in partially-punched chads led to tedious, inconclusive recounts. The “remedies” instituted since then are often no better, and sometimes even worse.
The BiModal Glideway (BMG) project is a new incarnation of the 60 year old possibility of bimodal transportation. Bimodal transportation involves vehicles that can operate on conventional streets and highways and on separated guideways. In the former they are driver controlled; in the latter they are system controlled and travel without driver intervention.
Vehicles have started to be equipped with multiple cameras, radars, parking sensors, etc.
Sensors information shall be represented efficiently in a non-distractive way to the driver.
Nowadays, the drivers are usually well isolated from sounds of the outside world. Well enough - for my innovation.
Background of the invention:
Once I drove alone in the very thick fog.
A battery powered pusher to turn your vehicle into a HYBRID vehicle
The market already has many fine hybrid and all electric vehicles for sale, but the price for the average person, who already has an adequate conventional vehicle to travel in, is more than most can afford. Also most battery powered vehicles have a limited range.
This invention relates to (a) ducted turbine(s) coupled with (a) generator(s), driven by the airstream of a moving vehicle. This unit(s) can be installed into existing aerodynamic rooftop-fairings of trucks, and / or be part of specially designed aerodynamic rooftop, or in the case of trains, in front of or on top of railroad cars.
A cell phone size handheld device that creates a freezing temperature on an aluminum disc, which can be used as an Ice Cube, wherever, whenever. Works on 4 AA size batteries which are re-chargeable. Non-rechargeable alkaline batteries can also be used. It is a permanent device that can be used repeatedly, thousands of times.
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Hydrogen Technologies, Inc. (HTI) has developed, proven and patented technology that makes the storage of large amounts of electrical power not only possible but also economically attractive. This technology has the potential to catalyze and sustain a major paradigm change in the electrical power industry. Fundamentally, the Company combines hydrogen and clean energy technologies, such as wind,
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A pen-sized smartphone equipped with a stick out rollable touch screen system may revolutionize the entire way that we communicate and utilize our multimedia devices (smartphone, tablets, PC, etc).
This can be the killer app of the future. Properly adapted to an earmounted multifunctional device (micro, speaker. Cam,
Cells of the body are under the continual forces of compression, tension and shear (collectively, strain.) These mechanical forces play important roles in the regulation of various biological processes such as gene expression, adhesion, migration, and apoptosis. These forces, and the cellular responses, determine the efficacy of medical interventions including pharmaceuticals,
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