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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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There is a need, and also a way, to reduce the cost per mile traveled by a factor of five while improving safety and reducing the time for travel. This design is the foundation of such a vision.
The concept puts the propulsion system in the hub of each wheel.
Electrical automobiles may be the best answer to minimize greenhouse gasses and decrease the cost of commuting. While electrical automobiles have been around for a long time, the current designs are best for short trips around the city. Ideally, the traveler can get to work and get home with only one battery charge,
Space-borne communications platforms are restrictive on weight and mass as these are directly proportional to launch costs. As a result, the antennas are usually integrated on the platform as space available on an existing launch vehicle. The usual suspects are foldable high-gain dishes or extendable booms for C-band, VHF, UHF.
After trying several plug -in room humidifiers with disappointing results, my wife and I came up with a powerless design that sets on an air duct and uses that moving air to humidify the room. We have built several prototypes and used these for 2 years now with excellent results (and no noise)!
The Problem:
Fast food restaurants increasingly make sales through drive-thru windows. Speed and drive-thru service differentiate restaurants as much as menu. Language issues are often the cause of slow ordering or misunderstanding between the customer and order-taker. Because of the volatile nature of food products,
Airspeed Measurement Using Acoustic Wave Propagation
A. Current industry standard:
All aircraft currently flying today use a Pitot tube and static pressure ports to determine airspeed. Airspeed is derived from the static and dynamic pressure difference. However, there are significant issues with this type of measurement: in spite of its simplicity,
High quality lenses and image sensors for High Definition video are widely available in many current video cameras.
However, in order to record HD, the video is typically highly compressed, which typically involves some compromises in image quality. Typically the video is watchable, but a high degree of image detail or color information is lost.
New nano foam polymer lithium batteries are relatively compact, light weight and have been designed to allow greater storage of electrical charge than other types of battery. They hold the potential to significantly increase the range of electric vehicles of the future. However, more importantly, this new type of battery can be molded into virtually any conceivable shape (Topix,
HOT parking lots, pavement and cars are very uncomfortable; and as this heat is reabsorbed, it radiates into warming the surroundings even more. Actually, there are very many parking lots, especially in the southern states, where heat is augmented because of this pavement radiation. Providing shade to these parking lots would make these unattractive spaces more humane.
The Solo is a high performance, single seat vehicle designed to explore new ideas in personal transportation. It is the product of many years of experience in the high-performance automotive, aircraft and composite materials industries. The Solo is ultra-light, highly fuel efficient and offers the performance,
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