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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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AIR CONTROL SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED VEHICLE ECONOMY
Last year I attempted to enter the ‘X-Prize for a 100 MPG Vehicle contest. I own a Toyota 2005 Prius and have 159,000 miles so far. I love this car. I withdrew from the contest because I could not get 75 MPG after testing 19 or so ideas.
Control system software testing is done to determine if a program will correctly meet its specifications and not perform unintended functions. For machinery OEMs, large portions of the software testing process are completed during machine commissioning. New machinery is often a multi-vendor effort between the machine builder and other machinery vendors or electric drive suppliers.
All people with epilepsy may not be able to use their cars because in a crisis, with loss of consciousness, can cause serious accidents.
Extensive studies of neurological signals of patients with epilepsy have shown that several minutes before a seizure, the brain sends warning signals recognizable by an analysis feature.
Garrow Aircraft LLC released in 2008 its unique and innovative aircraft design, called the Verticopter®, literally “Vertical Wing”, which is optimized for niche markets such as Aerial Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Border Patrol, News Coverage and VIP Transport.
The Verticopter® is a new convertiplane that is highly scalable from toys, to drones,
Capping a damaged deep water well presents many challenges. The high pressure and remote environment makes it impossible for humans and difficult for robots to work in. When a deep water well is damaged, the environmental impact is significant and environmental damage rises exponentially as time progresses.
BioChiller© is a refrigerator/freezer for the preservation of organs, tissue or other biological samples or medicines in storage or during transport. It will use easily-changed rechargeable battery packs and electric motors, to drive a small Zero Pollution Heat Pump© (ZPHP©). Aerogel or other extremely efficient insulation, will minimize cooling load.
Present patent pending innovation provides a quick and convenient method for punching holes through paper and other sheets to be arranged in file.
Hand operated hole punch machines are used to punch holes through the paper sheets or stack of sheets. To keep all the punched sheets filed in a well arranged manner,
We are now farther from the year that humans first landed on the Moon than we are from the year that the maximum number of human beings will be alive on the Earth.
The Power Sink can be a stand alone unit or retro fitted into dams. Can also be fixed in a array.
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