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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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Today’s challenge in robotics is the same that it has always been: to apply original technology to a task. With more than two million of such machines in use worldwide, can a single innovative American design mean that significant expansion will be forthcoming?
The answer to that question is now a resounding YES.
By offering a new approach to part handling,
Who do you know that would like a safer, faster, more fuel efficient airliner that could carry more at lower costs, take off at less than 100 mph yet travel near Mach 1 with minimal drag penalty? This design has already been proven in NASA, hypersonic testing. The time to support this giant leap forward in design is now.
Energy recovery thru the displacement of a coil and or magnet by up/down or sideway motion. Vehicle motion occurs naturally especially on rough roads and on curves.
Base Re-Alignment and Closure (BRAC) has closed many military bases that have Health Care facilities that can remain opened and assist with the local communities for which the BRAC has effected.
The low-income persons needing Medical/Dental/Special health needs can obtain these from trained military personnel. In turn,
A HVAC zoning system based on a rechargeable, battery operated, wireless zone or room damper and a centralized control system. The system is comprised of three components, a wireless temperature sensor for the zone to be controlled, a wireless,
}Patented DAMPS TM Technology utilizes opposing super magnets to reduce heel strike over 68%, as recorded with F-Scan pressure surface mapping testing for Special Operation Forces (SOF) in 2006.
SAIC (Science International Applications Corporation)in San Diego, CA is our POC (Point of Contact) for the military since 1998.
Further independent third party 1G 3G &
This design idea utilizes inexpensive webcams to add touch input and smart board features to ANY monitor.
The webcams are pointed at the screen from the left and right sides at a distance of about one foot. Each of the images is corrected for trapezoidal distortion due to the imaging angle in software.


The verasense is an intelligent surgical device used during Total Knee Arthoplastic surgery to help the surgeon to balance and align the knee. The device uses a sensor to give the surgeon feedback on load on the knee as well as mechanical alignment of the patient's leg.
This system consists of using water pressure, which will light the home and provide power for the use of electrical appliances.
The system operates when the gears on the generator are moved by water pressure moving the pistons, to accumulate power in a battery.
The excess of water accumulates in a pond and this can be used in household appliances,

The University of Alabama in Huntsville is conducting pulsed fusion propulsion research with the Charger-1 device. The Charger-1 is a ~500 kJ pulsed power facility capable of 2 MA discharges at 3 TW of instantaneous power. For comparison, the electrical power in the entire global grid is 15 TW.
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