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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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A Super Thermal Insulator that will last over 100 years and potentially save the planet.
A simple patented technology makes it possible to achieve insulation values of 0.0015 W/mK. This means that a panel only 15 mm thick could replace the wall of a building nearly half a metre thick.
The idea for this advanced baggage handling system was inspired by frequent travel made by the author.
Travelling with heavy baggage is a hectic experience. Most of the people who use air travel may know how difficult it is to bring all the baggage to check in at the airport and for families,
A thermal storage technology which enables the instantaneous generation of electricity, cooling and heat whenever it is needed, for use in the home, industry and power grids, etc.
For decades the science community has been trying to store energy and has been concentrating on doing this within electrical batteries.
A solar/human powerd tricycle for personal transport and light cargo that, depending on motor size (easily varied) can eather be ridden legally as a bicycle or registered as a motorcycle. Range with no sun is between 40 and 130 km and maximum speed is 25 to 60 km,
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) solves the long standing dilemma of passenger transportation by combining the advantages of the car and transit. Beamways is the only PRT optimized for low natural resource and energy consumption. With solar collectors on top of the guideway it can be self sufficient with energy.
Current mobile cell tower configurations require an electrical power source, land leasing (when applicable), and backhaul to the network. Augmenting the power schema by using a combination of solar panels and wind turbines with an energy storage unit would allow for more remote placement and more flexibility.
Portable tester for measuring the IV curves of solar cells and modules. It is controlled and powered through a USB cable with any computer such as a laptop or netbook, so can be used outdoors for sunlight testing for several hours with no AC power cord.
Better Sleep With A Blanket Retainer
Modern bead stead furniture most often does not incorporate a footboard. Whereas this makes bed making a bit easier, it does have the disadvantage of letting the blankets work their way off the bottom of the bed as the sleeper changes positions. To avoid this,
My design idea is to produce an electric battery operated car with a separate electric motor supplying power to each wheel. The car shall be designed to operate a magnetic perpetual motion charging generator as the wheels turn.
Background and scope of invention
This invention deals with improvement of battery backup of laptops by recycling the waste heat generated during the process. Laptop batteries used today have a limited backup time ranging from three to six hours. During long journeys, corporate meetings, and long power failures inconveniences are caused due to limited backup time of batteries.
Issues
During operation,
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