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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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Did you ever think that buying a new so called “green” vehicle even with lower carbon monoxide emissions would eventually contribute to global warming?
In the automotive industries, we can simply find a lot of car manufacturers releasing new car models each year.
Some people love to garden and grow their own food. Growing your own vegetables makes you sure that what you consume is safe from insecticides or any chemicals applied to make it look fresh for longer time. Gardening also helps in making the environment clean and beautiful.
Unfortunately,
An automobile spark ignition (SI) engine is most efficient at heavy load operating condition that comes rarely. It runs mostly at low load conditions when the fuel efficiency worsens. At regular drive conditions, VariPhase engine is at least 100% more fuel efficient than the conventional SI engines.
Car Parking Booked System is a new way to book a parking area through your smartphone or by website. You have to register to make an ID before you make a reservation to get your parking spot. Just show your reservation ID to a parking officer and they will give you a ticket to enter the area.
The tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) has a positive effect on driving safety, fuel consumption and tire lifetime. Unfortunately, not all vehicles are equipped with this device and it is more or less impossible (or too expensive) to install any existing TPMS afterwards.
People spend most of their time monitoring the household appliances to cater to their needs. Imagine yourself controlling the operation of home appliances without manually switching the buttons. For instance once you enter your bedroom, you realise that the air conditioner of your dining hall is left ON. Reverting back &
The Mars Biodome is a dome made out of transparent tri-layered panels and a sturdy frame that allows people to live on Mars. The panels on the Biodome are made of glass on the inside, a glass-plastic-glass layer on the outside, and a gas called argon in between to help with insulation.
Variable Ammunition is not yet available. In making this statement, we want to elaborate on the concept of cartridge ammunition. Cartridge ammunition consists of modules that are composed of several components, such as: cartridge case, igniter, powder charge and bullet.
The new concept is to develop a completely new type of ammunition, utilizing the Carrier Cartridge and Projectile Carrier.
Problem: It takes a lot of manpower to search an entire nation for weapons of mass destruction, as we learned in the Iraq War.
Solution: Have a swarm of robots lend some extra hands. Imagine a chassis mounted with a Geiger counter (for nuclear weapons), chemical residue sensor (for chemical weapons), pathogen sensor (for biological weapons), GPS receiver,
Does anyone remember the incident when the Miami Heat “cheated” because a shot clock violation was called, even when the ball hit the rim?
This is why we need an automatic shot clock!
I know that this has already been invented by Spalding, but their shot clock has many problems,
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