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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 need for green energy is increasing these days. This need may be met by incorporating one technology with another inter dependable technology.
Usually optical fibers are used to transmit data by using light as the carrier way. Likewise photovoltaic layers produce energy on exposure to light.
The Flipper is a revolutionary – pun intended – new toy: simple, fun to play with, yet technically sophisticated. The technology behind the toy is an innovative revolution counter and register for a rotating body in free space. The Flipper toy is cylindrical in shape, about a foot long, about 1 inch in diameter, weighing only ounces,
Throughout recent history there were several attempts to build Jules Verne's vision of a space cannon, from Krupp's wartime Paris Gun as a weapon to the 60's Harp project as a space launch system.In recent decades the SHARP light gas gun and the current successor Quicklaunch project are all still unable to affordably and reliably achieve their goal.
U-Fly Personal Flight.
Flight has been the dream of man since he first looked upward at the freedom of the birds to move effortlessly through the heavens. These notions of flight as a personal experience have all but been extinguished by the deficiencies of the current aviation industry;
Wind turbines generate power at costs comparable to fossil fuel electricity, which makes them ideal for substitution especially in remote areas. But current problems with the technology include high initial cost needed for mounting the wind turbines on a higher ground to capture higher winds. The model developed here is designed for the remote rural villages in India,
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currently developed product: "All Round Solar Wave Energy Antenna" an antenna for extracting and/or tapping the wave energy from the Sun day & night, in rainy or sunny weather, from the Earth's atmosphere. Fields of application are power energy generation, auto engine, anti-gravity propulsion drive. 3D solid model prototyped.
This innovative system combines the diagnostic tools of Eastern and Western medicine. By monitoring and examining the blood pressure and pulse in both arms concurrently, I believe a multitude of hidden symptoms of many debilitating ailments can be found.
Sleek and minimal? Check. Large screen? Check. Oodles of tech? Check, check and check! E’llipse is a watch to end all watches. Why? Because it has a fancy processor and the latest algorithms in human-machine learning. Yes it learns you! It knows what you want and keeps you up to date. That’s not all.
The APET is a “magnetic levitation” public transportation system. It will transport commuters and their vehicles, via individual “pods,” long distances, to and from major cities, while their vehicles engines are off and expelling no emissions. This transportation system will radically lower the number of vehicles on freeways, thereby reducing vehicle pollution and traffic. In addition,
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