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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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I have a proposal for a new transportation that would REPLACE the automobile. It involves merging an older concept called PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) with the newer innovations in automation demonstrated by the DARPA challenges and the Google driverless cars. The plan is to basically retrofit our current transportation infrastructure with a rail-based, shared,
This hydromechanical automatic transmission provides hydraulic regenerative braking for cars, trucks and buses with an approx. 40% improvement in mpg at a total vehicle cost less than the equivalent conventional vehicle. It provides 60 separate forward gear ratios (approaching continuously variable).
It consists of 8 fixed displacement hydraulic pump/motors,
Saving Lives in Home Fires With Smoke, Heat, and Fresh Air Vents
What kills people, who die in home fires? Poisonous gases in the smoke. What do firefighters do when they arrive at a burning home? Ventilate the house letting smoke and heat out and fresh air in.
CarKnow's Cloud platform addresses difficulty accessing vehicle diagnostic information by providing hardware and software to simplify capturing, using, and reacting to sensor data. The CarKnow “CARduino” device is a GSM bridge between in-vehicle Controller Area Networks, on-device GPS and motion sensors, and a web platform leveraging MIT’s “CloudThink” object mirroring architecture.
The Lund Variable Velocity Weapon System, or LVVWS, is a variable velocity non-lethal projectile launch system that uses a commercially available combustion gas in a single cycle engine to launch impact projectiles to deter or incapacitate an opponent.
Natural gas liquid (NGL) Recovery from Packaged Compressors
The disparity between the price of natural gas liquid (NGL) and natural gas has heightened the importance to recover NGL from oil and gas production equipment. Concurrently, new oil discoveries, such as the Bakken and Utica oil fields, produce rich natural gas associated with oil production. Consequently,
PRV performance has developed, patented, and tested an automotive air/fuel induction system to improve engine torque and volumetric efficiency. Improved pre-mixing of fuel and air increases engine torque and lowers tailpipe emissions. The Pintle-regulated Venturi induction (PRV) improves fuel economy and torque by
* reducing piston pumping loss;
* pre-vaporizing fuel upstream of the engine,
Electricity need is increasing in our daily life. Nowadays scarcity of
electricity has increased. The sources of producing electricity from renewable
means is the latest trend in our society. The generation of Electrical energy from
Heat energy is discussed.
Heliostat is a technology to use the renewable energy resources from
Paddy fields in Kuttanad, (Kerala) are unique because it's one of only two places in the world where agriculture is done below sea level. About 55,000 hectares, reclaimed from the surrounding backwaters for paddy cultivation along with an outer bund are made into a cluster of fields called polders.
At some point in their lives almost everyone has wanted to fly. The draw of the open sky can be very compelling, but for most it is out of reach. Airplanes are expensive and require specialized facilities to operate from. All of this can make it very difficult for someone to experience the joys of flying.
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