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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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Technology Potential:
This project is a potential power distribution improvement on a Global scale. This technology is capable of being applied in the massive electrical/electronic industries as a cheaper alternative to the existing sources of semiconductors like hydrogenated amorphous silicon and mixtures of arsenic, selenium , tellurium,germanium, gallium arsenide, and silicon carbide.
A simple way to improve fuel economy for all vehicles would be to time the traffic signals so that cars and trucks traveling at the posted speed limit would pass through one green light after another during the commute. Besides conserving fuel, other benefits would be shorter commute times and safer intersections.
“Algae infusion into catalytic convertors of the car’s vehicle exhaust system”
There are millions of vehicles on the road in the world, and each one is a source of air pollution. Especially in large cities,
We already have the tools to prevent another accident like Air France 447. Lidar or laser radar true airspeed meters are in use at university wind tunnels, National Center for Atmospheric Research and NASA wind tunnels.The problem that my idea will solve is the mis-
interpretation of the direction of the relative wind.
When first learning to fly,
In the last decades the private space sector has increased its initiative independently from or in tight collaboration with the national and international space agencies. Many companies have the capabilities of designing and actually building satellites or entire modules of the International Space Station.
If you are ready to shop for best performance and best safety private aircraft, what characteristics will your aircraft feature? What type of propeller will you use ? These considerations will affect the aircraft aerodynamic propelling efficiency, flight control maneuvering configuration, flight safety, flight speed and performance; effect to vibration and noise and the most easy catchy specs,
Flywheel research at NASA and BOEING and other places are proving that this energy storage has arrived.
When weapons are used as energy or particle accelerators, one major problem has been to get sufficient burst energy to fire and then to be able to fire successive shots. For Rail Guns batteries and capacitors typically supply the energy.
This entry describes a product that can be built with proper research coordination.
We are on the verge of being able to build this robot/machine that would revolutionize the civilization we live in.
Many are attacking the renewable energy issues. People use geothermal and some of the wells are causing problems because of the addition of fluids to underground structures that are altering, causing minor earthquakes etc. Water supply is also a problem in some locales.
Computational Model of Human Body Based Upon the Genetic Analysis for Drug Development and Treatment
The proposed computational model of the human body is going to revolutionize the field of medicine. It would be deux ex machina of medicine. From now on, instead of treatment based upon trial and error, we would be developing the precise treatment using the model derived from the genome of the given patient.
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