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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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We are currently marooned on Earth, making scant progress on cost effective ways to reach Low Earth Orbit. President Obama's new space policy may be paraphrased as "No more Buck Rogers until we get the cost down, so get cracking." Albert Einstein showed us the way: "If at first the idea is not absurd,
I propose to put elevated Monorail service between cities along the Highway medians. This would start on short runs, and eventually connect the entire country just like the Highway system does now.
I see many advantages to this setup.
- Access is already in place.
o The elevated tracks would go along the medians,
This invention relates to a variable pitch hub for propeller-blades in order to maximize efficiency and output in terms of rotational speed and torque to a wind power driven generator, maximize strong wind survivability for propeller, generator and support-tower, as well as a speed regulating gear.
My idea is to use linear motion technology and controls to power a vehicle, car or truck by incorporating a circular linear motor in to the wheels of the vehicle.
Using Computational Fluid Dynamics Model to Predict Changes in Velocity properties in Stented Carotid Artery
Abstract:
Atherosclerosis is a disease that narrows, thickens, hardens and restructures a blood vessel due to substantial plaque deposit. In the Carotid Artery,
Self-erecting/locking,unlocking-folding Support Mast for heavy equipment like Wind-Generators, Lighting Equipment and more.
Background of the Invention:
This invention relates to a hydraulically operated support-mast for heavy equipment like wind-generators, lighting equipment and other items to be held aloft. The mast described herein does not require heavy equipment nor easy access,
January 4, 2010
Proposed Airplane Fuel Tank Modification
The basic concept for the modification is a series of pressurized rectangular pouches of blastproof acrylic fabric, such as Kevlar, which are affixed (epoxied?) to the top and bottom outer surfaces of the plane’s wing fuel tanks, as well as on the central fuel tank in the bottom center of the fuselage.
Desalination process is both time consuming and costly. This process will allow input water flow and output water flow to be continues. Requires no heating of the water.
Sept 1: The process of water flow would require nano-robots (nanotechnology) programmed to search out the salt and attach to the salt. With each nano-robot with a magnet property,
The Vehicle Vector Wireless Network (VVWN) is an added option to current GPS navigation units. The VVWN inputs vector data from other VVWN units within its wireless network range, and transmits its own vector data to other vehicles within its range. The main purpose of the system is to calculate potential collisions between vehicles.
At the moment there are two major companies touting IPTV around, AT&T and Verizon with their cable tv products U-Verse and FIOS respectively. But these systems fail to really pull the plug from cable, and utilize the IP protocol that could revolutionize television.
IPTV could be more useful, using a system like Akamai,
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