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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 invention deals with improvement of battery backup of laptops by recycling the waste heat generated during the process. Laptop batteries used today have a limited backup time ranging from three to six hours. During long journeys, corporate meetings,
The idea is to minimize solar PV array farm size. The idea is inspired by MIT research. In this design, instead of flat solar PV modules, Pyramid PV Module is used to get maximum power output using small bounding volume.
This heat exchanger is designed for an electric dryer that is vented outside. It will capture 50 to 80 percent of the waste heat without venting the humidity inside. It is designed to be very fire resistant yet easy to build with wood working tools.
RICE eliminates crank, connecting rod, cam shafts, timing belt box, valves, and the transmission of the conventional piston & cylinder. RICE replaces functions of the eliminated parts with software.
A rotor is formed when four blades (3F or 3B) are attached to a hub (2F or 2B).
The present economics crisis is due (in part) to a lack of understanding about how our social system works. Today macroeconomics is very badly taught and far too complicated explanations are given.
Universal spanner-screwdriver consists of
1) Frame (grey in picture).
2) 5 slotted (2 mm,3 mm,4 mm,5 mm,6 mm) screwdrivers.
3) 5 crossed (2 mm,3 mm,4 mm,5 mm,6 mm) screwdrivers.
4) Spanner (blue) (10 mm,12 mm,14 mm,19 mm,24 mm).
5) Spanner (red) (8 mm,11 mm,13 mm,17 mm,22 mm).
The engine consists of an elliptic casing 19, a rotor 10 with vanes 11 that, owing the copy mechanism 25, allows them to maintain contact with the elliptic casing in all positions. So the vanes play the role of the pistons. A single vane replaces one piston, one cylinder,
Many people believe that perpetual motion is impossible...however doesn't piezo electricity yield convertible electromotive force? Unlocking the electric motor allowing for the commutator to advance also overcomes resistance of the field for electrical generation by increasing inertia with a given electromotive force.
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Today we are living in a "touch world” where we enjoy Facebook and YouTube every day. We are more social than ever before, we watch the world through a camera. Let’s have a look at YouTube statistics: over 4 billion videos are viewed a day,
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