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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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Environmental impacts associated with the production and consumption of energy include global climate change, acid rain, hazardous air pollution, smog, radioactive waste, and habitat destruction. The nation’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels – primarily imported petroleum – poses major concerns for energy security. Therefore, the reduction of energy in any form will provide an energy savings for future generations.
The design of conventional Otto-cycle engines (automotive and beyond) has changed dramatically over the last 100 years. There have been leaps in efficiency but with each advancement it has become harder to improve upon the platform. Instead of making small gains by tweaking the individual components, it is time to change the conventional engine at its core.
High pressure gas cylinders must by law at all times be secured by strap or chain to prevent them from falling over and breaking the valves and becoming deadly missiles.
This will be a car that floats on air from negative magnets on the bottom of the car and positive magnets on the front of the car to pull it and negative magnets on the back of the car to push it. This technology can be used for airplanes that hover without wheels to slow it down or cause accidents.
One of the biggest problems people have is keeping their outdoor garbage cans from blowing around...sending them out into the street and leaving them damaged.
The Trash/Garbadge Can Bracket helps keep cans in place. Made of durable plastic, the Trash Can Bracket fits into the ground with a spike on it's bottom, and then snaps firmly around the base;
Yes I know this is NASA but this is really simple. Efficiency is better! Diesel engines have been around for 100 years. They have improved but are reaching a point of diminishing return. Their fundamental process is the same – combustion in a cylinder that pushes a piston. At the end of its stroke,
The new product idea is nicknamed the A-STAR Advanced Superior Tactical Aero Rotorcraft, which has agility control ability via full dimensional thrust vectoring techniques. The A-STAR can be branched from Unmanned Air Vehicle to Manned Vehicle into Safe Air Travel also known as 3 Dimensional Travel.
Macine Description-Overview:
Imagine: You walk up to this Modern, Fascinating, Patriot Health (vending) Machine and choose what you want:
You drop down your Card or Put in your Dollar for payment, then
Choose a Beverage: 1) Mineral-Spring Water, 2) Soda, 3) Juice 4) Yogurt Frozen or Regular 5) Other (Teas & Coffees maybe later)
Choose a flavor/essence:
DC/DC transformer without inductive parts, is new way to increase voltage of DC source and decrease electric current, or decrease voltage and increase electric current. Very small losses (current for logic support) for manage operating of this unit, provide very efficient transforming voltage/current, for more voltage requests.
DC/DC transformer without inductive parts,
This novel invention uses polishing techniques to slowly polish or abrade away stepped layers of an object to be scanned. The scanned object is cast into a contrasting resin which provides a dark (or light) background for photography. The layers are digitally photographed stepwise to produce a record of internal structures.
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