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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 is a temporary plug for a leaky underwater pipe.
First construct a 2 grid system that can be placed on top of each other.
The plan is to redesign a Motor Coach to become a portable communications center that would support ten career minded students by allowing real-time interactive communication with ten high schools and three classes per school, while moving on the highway to a career field trip.
Here is a “green” technology that should revolutionize materials, design and construction methods of highway and other bridges. In addition to considerable savings, it offers the unique inherent capacity to withstand earthquakes, hurricanes and flooding, and the design flexibility to accommodate rises in sea levels due to global warming.
Prevailing bridge building materials are concrete and steel.
The apparatus described herein, a mud injector, stops undersea well blowouts by providing a method for injecting heavy drill muds at depth within a stricken well. It is assumed the well pipe has been prepared such that its top is unencumbered by various obstructions, and that the oil is issuing forth at high pressure.
This concept represents, in terms of probable deterred economic loses, a beneficial design development undertaking. U.S.F.A. states that between 1997 and 2006, 58.5 million acres of wildland was lost to fire at a cost of hundreds of lives and billions of dollars in economic value.
Storage To-Go
The proliferation of low power, large capacity, small form factor, external hard disk drives into consumer electronic products will be the largest growth areas over the next few years according to market analysts. These go-anywhere, high-capacity and ultra-low power ultra-mobile storage devices are ideal for capturing, viewing, archiving,
Regarding the greenhouse effect and providing sustainable energy sources, hydrogen economy plays a significant role in the future but has many challenging points. By using hydrogen fuel cell systems supply clean energy without any emission gas. Water vapour is the only product of the reactions taking place, that’s why fuel cells are regarded as non-polluting zero-emission devices.
The idea to utilize waves in elastic solids for generating rotational motion goes back to Sashida (1982) and has become widespread in mechatronic systems, for instance in photo cameras for focusing the lenses.
The basic idea behind the so called travelling-wave-type-motor are the elliptic trajectories of the surface points in the stator.
The "Level with Built-in Line Drawing Mechanism" is a simple improvement to the standard carpenter's level to enable easy line marking. Often when standing on a ladder, trying to hold a level still, and then attempting to scribe a line on the wall, the level slips from the force of the pencil against the level,
LONG RANGE FIRE DETECTION AND RESPONSE
WITH UNIQUE OPTICAL DETECTOR
Approximately five billion dollars in US revenue is lost annually due to open area fires. Millions of acres of forest, many buildings and other properties are destroyed. Tragically, many brave firefighters and countless wildlife are lost.
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