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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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By engineering the fire extinguisher into an oval form, three common construction problems and code violations now have a solution.
1. With the OVAL fire extinguisher, walls can now remain at their standard depth if a storage cabinet with a flush door is desired. Most standard walls are framed with 3-5/8” metal studs;
Problems
The need to belong and be socially connected is an important part of human well being. But often, when in social events, it can be difficult to start a conversation with a stranger even if we want to.
During the operation of nuclear power plants (NPP) mechanical properties of the structural materials can change due to several factors such as irradiation, temperature, load level and fatigue loading, corrosion, etc. Such changes in material properties influence the lifetime of the equipment (aging).
Geothermal energy* and over 60% of man made energy is wasted as low heat. Converting low heat into effective work is uniquely challenging in the real world as there is simply not enough energy for the desired expansion ratios to take place in the current state of the art heat engines.
In some of these spy movie and action movies you see "the mark" get their keys picked, imprinted and cut (duplicated) by the master spy or even ultimate criminal. The "echo my key" aims to make this extremely difficult to do to near impossible.
A simple apparatus has been built which can be used to detect direct emanations from the visible planets, sun, and moon. The apparatus is shown in Figure 1, mounted on a six-inch reflecting telescope. It is simply a five inch diameter, six foot long stove pipe with an automotive funnel at the end. The funnel,
Electricity derived from SUN & WIND & WAVE & TIDE & Hot-springs is GREEN ENERGY. The ideal and highly desired situation that these green sources completely eliminate use of fuels of any kind to generate electricity, has untill now been impossible because they cannot supply electricity on demand.
I built a Garden Cottage for my wife and she needed a way to store the rakes, shovels and other implements inside the shop. I first made a shelve that had holes to drop the tools in. It was too difficult to remove them.
The concept involves a laundry basket incorporating a feature which will allow an individual to deposit clothing directly into a front-loading washing machine via a molded “chute.” Front-loading washing machines are becoming more popular,
In automobiles, alternative fuel as replacement of conventional fuel is used, due to its
depletion and amount of emission, and has given way to Electric, CAT vehicles.
The gap between current technology and zero emission vehicles can be bridged by hybrid technology. Hybrid vehicles are those which can run on two or more fuels.
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