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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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The Attitude Control and Aerodynamic Drag Sail (ACADS) is a gossamer structure intended to be deployed on a nanosatellite once the spacecraft is on orbit.
The sail is deployed using compressed nitrogen that inflate telescoping booms. Once deployed, the sail has a cross-sectional area of ten square meters.
This is a unique new approach for Voltage References, not based on zener or bandgap use, that can be built using Bipolar, JFET, or MOS process technologies. The voltage output level is determined by the ratio of resistors, capacitors or inductors. Absolute part values, transistor gain, and offset are not critical.
This sensor differentiates between most ferrous and nonferrous metals, therefore identifying the potential for hazardous sparking tools without subjecting them to a common test - the grinding wheel. Nonferrous metals are considered "Non-sparking," “spark reduced,” "spark-resistant" or "spark-proof.
This system will help in slowing down a hijacked marine vessel escaping from authorities. The simple theory behind this invention is based on using the dynamic principle of “Impulse and Momentum.”
This system can be deployed by an aircraft or a ship in pursuit of a target vessel. Once the deployment craft is within range,
InvisiTower is a persistent, rapidly deployable aerial platform for surveillance and communications. It consists of a small unmanned aerial vehicle that is connected by a tether to a power source on the ground. The platform can remain aloft and stationary indefinitely, carrying a payload of cameras, sensors, or communication repeaters. Thus,
The conceptual project:
A device for electronic replacement of coins in shops.
1. Work principles:
- completely electronics;
- electro-mechanical.
WhalePower is in the process of developing a range of new, more efficient fans for computer cooling. Our corporation holds the patent to develop new fans, turbines, pumps and compressors improved by a unique blade shape, enhanced by bumps on the leading edges of the rotor blades called "tubercles." This innovation was discovered by WhalePower’s President, Dr. Frank Fish,
What with this Hydrogen production and use, its all very well having no fuel bills to worry about, Hyperspace travel (does anyone know how to steer in hyperspace under rocket power?) and saving the Earth as we go about it, but as we all know, Hydrogen is dangerous stuff.
Cutting of stencils on mylar, paper,or plastic sheets for artwork is usually by Exacto knives, or by modified soldering irons. In this idea, the metal tip of a ballpoint pen is replaced with a glass ball through which a laser beam is focused onto the paper or plastic sheet with which the stencil is to be cut.
The Solar Energy Collection and Transfer Satellite uses a system of EMBs (Electro-Mechanical Batteries, Figure 1) to store energy collected by solar panels located on the satellite. EMBs store energy through spinning a composite flywheel with an electric motor, which is incorporated into the battery. You can use the electricity by using the motor as a generator,
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