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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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- Use in home security application
- Accepts up to 10 user names and passwords and stores them to memory.
- Accepts cellphone number and store it to memory.
- name up to 10 characters.
- password 4 digit number.
How many of us have heard of someone dying during air travel? Many of these persons died from cardiac causes, such as myocardial infarction. It is also likely that the health crisis was precipitated by low blood oxygenation while sleeping, a frequent consequence of air travel in pressurized cabins.
A safe, wireless device that reduces the risk of falling asleep. This wearable device may be inside a fabric cap attached to a glove. It measures heart rate and heart rate variability through a pulse oximeter. When the rate falls below a wearer-tailored threshold, an stimulation alerts the wearer. This prevents accidentally falling asleep, while driving,
A safe, wireless, wearable device applicable to the finger or toe or hand palm in order to reduce the risk of the Sudden Infant Death syndrome. This device may be inside a fabric finger cap, perhaps with a pacifier, on a glove. It measures blood oxygen saturation and heart rate via pulse oximetry. When any of these parameters falls,
A systems approach aids the visually or hearing impaired via Google Glass or other Heads Up Display (HUD), WiFi, and GPS to identify points of interest in buildings or venues, called Locations. Glass with an android phone has features which allow hands-free or touch pad to control access to the system. Operates in two modes,
Ergonomics with eStand-1
eStand 1 reduces stress by giving you the flexibility to adjust laptop/desktop screen height to your eye level. Keyboard/mouse height will also be adjusted to the correct level so that an ergonomically comfortable posture can be maintained. Ergonomically correct posture reduces the stress to your whole body.
As a Photovoltaic cell gets hot its ability to convert sun-light to electrical energy reduces. This increase in temperature occurs as a simple byproduct of exposure to the light of the sun. For solar arrays that don’t use collectors, the temperature increase is minor.
TEOP is an acronym for Thermo-Electronic Optimum Power: A forever battery with a minimum service life of fifty years.
A rugged intelligent adaptation of the Therm-o-Electronic Battery, (US) patent application 14099911.
The device functions similar to an intelligent dynamic power supply with energy storage.
SOLUTE ION LINEAR ALIGNMENT PROPULSION/ACCELERATION to RAPIDLY produce energy in solution of water via flash distillation heat generation for heating of an aqueous solution such as sea water. The flash distillation could be continued until the solution becomes saturated brine and precipitation can be initiated on a continuous basis.
Aircraft Pax Cab Noise System Reduction
The system is based on an anti-phase noise generator.
The signal is processed from a vibration transducer by a DSP unit.
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