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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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Traditional pressure-boundary piping gaskets, such as pipe flanges and valve body-to-bonnet joints, can leak due to many factors. Chief among these are (i) improper initial gasket seating stress (GSS) sufficient to form a seal and (ii) failure to maintain the initial GSS in-service due to creep relaxation of the gasket sealing material over time.
Old & current ship designs have the propeller to run the ship. Here I have designed a ship with a small replacement. It gives high efficiency, which is a theoretical calculation. In this ship from an imaginary line on front and back shows that it won't submerge in water whole from any unwanted ocean waves.
The device will have some optical sensors, a camera, an audio system & a digital signal processor. The software should have intelligent algorithms to map an human eye charateristics & portion of the human brain responsible for vision analysis.
The device shall be tied to the user at a convenient position.
This is a Universal Credit Card. I got vexed with carrying credit cards from different vendors. When customer is supreme in this customer oriented world, I prefer carrying a single credit card.
This is how it is supposed to work.
Stage 1: I get a universal credit card from any one vendor I chose or got approved.
The In Wall iPhone Media Station or iWIMS, has embraced the iPhone generation and provides an effective and attractive alternative to iPhone docks in Home, Work, and Travel environments. iWIMS is a flush wall mount iPhone/iPod dock that provides recharging capabilities,
Vertical wall parking garage/storage system.
High cost of the land and crowded conditions on the streets of many highly populated modern cities encourages search for affective solutions of motor vehicle parking space with minimal footprint on the ground.
Proposed automatic storage system has many advantages over existing street parking lots, multistory parking garages,
Examination of many computer programs reveals that only a few logic structures are involved and that these could be placed on a device such as the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array). This led to the development of the concept of a computer without machine code.
This is a new concept in renewable energy production, called AirWatt. It can produce much more electrical power per unit area of land than solar, wind, or hydro power plants. Whereas solar works only during sunlight hours, the AirWatt power plant can usually run 24 hours per day in appropriate locations.
The Sliding Knife Guard is a protective cover for any sharp knife. Unlike any other knife guard it allows you to cut food with the guard on unless it is in the lock position. When you cut into an object the gaurd lifts up allowing the blade to slice through, but once you are finished cutting,
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