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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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Seventy-six percent of the US population wears some sort of visual aid device. Focusing long-term on a close-range object (such as a book or computer monitor) often leads to eye muscle atrophy. This problem affects a rapidly-increasing number of people, due to an increase in computer use. While some vision-impairing conditions (eg.
The invention provides a single microspherical fiber system which can generate multiple laser outputs. It includes a laser beam at the input end for pumping the system and an output end for the desired laser lines. Pluralities of doped microspheres are adhesively attached to the fiber or inserted into a hollow fiber.
Method of reducing gryoscopic drag in automobile engines.
Remember the spinning "Tops" that we played with as children? The type that, if you set it spinning (perhaps a few hundred rpm) it would stand on it's end as if by magic? We were all amazed at our first demonstration of gryoscopic force.
Today,
The US Interstate Highway System consists of about 47,000 miles of highway. Dividing the highway is a median strip that average about 40 feet in width. Thus, Interstate Highway median strips constitute about 9.93 billion square feet, 228,000 acres of land.
If this land were used to grow biomass whose primary function was to act as a carbon sink,
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Since bicycles have existed for so long, we take for granted their construction and usefulness. We normally use the bike for transport, leisure & as an exercising equipment. Under careful consideration,we can find enormous potential for many other uses.The drawbacks of existing construction are:
Only our legs get enough exercise due to cycling.
Rain Guides
Idea/invention for moving water through the landscape which celebrates the amenity of water rather than burying it. It is ideal for use with rain barrels and rain gardens. The use of this invention promotes conservation of natural resources by slowing the flow of stormwater,
Good roof and good heating/cooling system is inevitable for every house. Heating and cooling consumes lot of energy. Cost of energy is permanently increasing and fuel resources are limited so solar energy has to be used more extensively. Properly designed roof system can protect house against bad weather and harvest energy of environment for heating.
Solar Power Collector, Above or Below the Solar Elliptic Plane
NASA & the Department of Energy need to work together to develop space based Solar Power Collectors [SPC] that are off the planetary solar elliptic. This is energy that has never been available to the Earth. Power/Energy is the real currency of the world, Dollars should become Sollars;
Normally, digital cameras will have one removable Memory Card. After you have taken a picture, it is normally stored in this Memory Card. If you want to share any picture while on a vacation with co-vacationers, you need to go to a computer to copy the picture.
Now a day, the automobile is very common to everybody. But everybody is facing the problem of breakage of clutch and/or brake wire in between his or her journey. At that time, he or she may be in trouble to reach to his destination because of breakage of clutch and/or brake wire.
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