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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 application is designed to allow for safer travel in low light conditions for motorcyclists.
Due to the low cost manufacture of this unit it will allow for an easy uptake among the general riding population.
Motorcycles generally fare poorly in accidents and create a high medical cost with associated high Insurance costs.
This lamp holds many benefits.
IoTNet is the plumbing that glues an arbitrary input to an ad hoc output. There is a growing need for a publicly fielded network where people who need passive, non-interactive access to objects like sensors, actuators, and other cyber-physical systems (CPS) can seamlessly interact with them based on location and other user-defined variables.
Waves have been over-simplified as sinusoidal in physics since Newton and in mathematics since Euler, but even ripples on water diminish in wavelength gradually but indefinitely. Resonance in an "imperfect oscillator" with changing natural frequency conversely requires successive wave cycles with periods changing at the same rate. We have rigorous mathematical basis and observational evidence beyond 5σ,
When it comes to taking cargo into space the current method is to take the cargo, put it on the top of a large rocket and launch it. Launching a rocket is expensive, tens of million of dollars.
The prices of natural gas and electricity are still rising, so it is advisable to find new sources of energy for heating houses and apartments. Trimmed tree branches, cut weeds and paper no longer suitable for recycling are landfilled or burned uselessly in the fields. This produces quantities of methane and carbon dioxide,
Described is “Malevolence,” a hybrid electric motorcycle, including an electric motor and jet engine. The vehicle combines a traditional electric motor, powered by battery, rotating the rear wheel with torque via a chain drive, and a secondary engine utilizing an air ducting array augmented with ramjet technology, able to propel the vehicle additionally via thrust.
Researchers at INL have developed a large-scale spark plasma sintering process. While small scale SPS has been accomplished, the novelty of this process lies in the tooling and knowledge developed to address the scale up issues and fabricate a viable armor tile.
Idaho National Laboratory experts have developed a new tool, Caldera. The foundation of the Caldera software platform is a library of high-fidelity EV charging models derived from extensive charging and battery testing data that INL has collected over the past decade. Caldera fills a clear technology gap. One set of existing tools enables simulation of transportation networks,
This revolutionary rotary engine combines a simple structure and 2 cycle efficiency. The engine is composed of very few parts with no moving valves and no reciprocating pistons. It could be adapted to run on clean energy sources such as Hydrogen. It is small and light weight and could find uses such as range extenders for electric vehicles.
Recently granted US Patent 11,338,884 being a C-I-P application of 11,021,207 represents the world's most economical and efficient cantilever style bicycle brake.
The intellectual property is available for sale and/or licensing.
It is fully understood that as most bicycle brakes, the discoidal bicycle brake invention is activated by a handlebar mounted brake lever.
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