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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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Part of the increasing medical costs we see comes from the need for diagnosis via either a doctor's visit or, in the case of poorer people, a visit to the emergency room. Often, perhaps 60% of the time, the condition is trivial.
The Diagnostic Kiosk uses a diagnostic plate preloaded with illness specific reagents,
By "Merging Waves" together to create "Electromagnetic Molds"
so that electrons and positrons (holes) hold into certain configurations that would allow Quantum fluid like logical control of atoms and molecules and particles, allowing a more precise production of sensors and electronic circuits.
In Ocean Algal Afforestation (OAA), a macro-algae forest (such as kelp, but any biomass will work) is grown on the ocean surface. Carefully managed harvesting allows the forest to grow to support a complete natural ecosystem with diverse and edible sea life.
Concept: With the world population at 6.9 billion it is physically and financially impossible for everyone to visit the great wonders of the world. Many of these wonders are being preserved in National Parks in countries around the world. Some of these countries lack the resources to properly protect and maintain their National Parks.
On a typical aircraft wing, a surface that rises from the top surface to help with laminar flow, and depending on the speed, it may eliminate or reduce the sonic boom by creating a secondary shock wave that would cancel out the primary shock wave before it reaches the ground. This would be on each wing top,
The present configuration of traffic lights represents a very real hazard to pedestrians as the entire traffic light setup is totally configured for auto traffic and absolutely no regard is given to pedestrian safety.
Hologram Phone (HPhone) is a communication device that projects real-time 3-D images between users.
Overview:
The HPhone utilizes advanced laser and satellite technologies which results in an exciting future of futuristic telecommunications. "Live," absolutely precise, three-dimensional 3-D images of users are move and react with one another.
LED replacements for four foot T8 fluorescent lamps have a energy saving of about 35%. By adding a wireless or power line networking electronics directly into the tube additional energy savings can be accomplished, via dimming or selectively turning off individual tubes per fixture. Upwards of 85% total energy savings can be accomplished using these technique.
Applying supersonic counter-?owing cold gas jets of a certain mass flow rate and pressure at the nose of a supersonic vehicle can reduce drag, aerodynamic heating and possibly reshape sonic boom signatures.
The ID Digital Camera is a device that law enforcement can use to automatically ID "persons of interest" in the vicinity by matching the image on their viewfinder to the police database of felons or victims (mug shots)on file.
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