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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 Spot Metal Detector is a metal detecting system designed to scan and indicate the location of underground metal objects with a marking fluid or paint. The device vastly improves the abilities to scan large areas for metal objects accurately and safely from a remote location.
JDAxis and physicians from the University of Arizona’s Medical School have developed a patent pending medical device which is a proposed portable, non-invasive, handheld and intelligent wound assessment cameral based on infrared imaging. The technology consists of a thermal camera,
A full-time four-wheel-drive system for a motor vehicle is big, heavy, expensive, and inefficient. It requires a clutch, transmission, three differentials, two drive shafts, and four axles. The transmission contains dozens of moving parts, and each differential includes another half dozen. To get to the wheels, the power must go through the clutch, transmission,
The Arachnid Vigor works by attracting and repelling alternating positive and negative magnetic poles. Thus causing the apparatus to rotate. As the machine rotates, the rod in the center of the apparatus will be equipped with a gearing mechanism located on the bottom of the rod, to match the gears of an attached electrical generator.
LiftPort Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure
“Lunar Space Elevators for Cislunar Space Development”
LiftPort Group and its ‘Best in Class’ team of experts have come together (for the first time ever) with a unique, revolutionary rethink of the Lunar Elevator concept. LiftPort’s Lunar Space Elevator Infrastructure (LSEI) is different.
Imagine a millimeters wide thread,
Blind people are constantly at risk for being hit by cars which they cannot see. Especially in contemporary society where cars are getting quieter and quieter (electric cars produce essentially no noise) it is extremely important to be able to alert blind people of oncoming traffic.
"Kaplan Crystalline 'Room-Temperature' Superconducting Alloy Wire" is wound into large coils which can be “charged” to create large, high magnetic field, “perpetual electromagnets.” Either fresh or salt water can be easily compelled into high velocity and high momentum vortex flow within the electrically-insulated center of such solenoids,
Project Overview:
The goal of this project is to duplicate the generating power of a hydro power dam immersed totally underwater. This would work by using the pressure depth to deliver the pressure head for the turbines. The turbines would be placed meters below the water’s surface taking advantage to the natural pressure created.
Project Overview:
This project will create an energy producing device that will take in an underwater current, increase its velocity 3 to 10 times. This gives the CKM an advantage over most designs today for current to power devices.
When the Pulsed Turbine duel tandem four-chambered rotor engine comes to fruition, it will display inherit redundancy characteristics, built-in safety features not found in other aviation engines. This design configuration brings two separated Pulsed Turbine Rotor Engines, (U.S. Patent: US 6,907,723 B1), together that share a centralized ignition distribution circuitry and a power shaft,
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