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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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The Electromagnetic Reciprocating Engine will replace the Combustion Engine in electricity production and transportation.
The Electromagnetic Reciprocating Engine (United States Patent 7,557,473) will reduce the effects of Climate Change. The engine will end over 60% of greenhouse gases which will affect the climate of the World. The engine will end over 75% of the World's dependency on Oil.
Conventional internal combustion engines have their displacement fixed. My project is to make an engine which can have a variable displacement due to which power can be optimized as required. After some studies I have concluded that a 4 cylinder engine can vary its capacity from 1.7 L to 2.1 L.
The current, existing Internet is fundamentally unsecure, what is result of design of this Internet.
Only way to create a secure Internet is to develop a new, secure Internet - it is Internet-like, but with a design different from the current Internet, telecommunication systems. The new design or designs should provide for full or may be nearly full security.
Encircling tumors with an army of miniature nanolasers offer a new way to battle cancer. One nanolaser would be at least 100 times smaller than a single cancer cell and millions of them will penetrate a tumor to destroy it by thermal ablation in this new method of treatment. Technically, the proposed device isn’t really a laser,
Smart Materials to Improve Aerodynamic Efficiency
The morphing technology, inspired by bat and bird flight, can enable an aircraft to adapt its shape to enhance mission performance and optimize flight altitude controlling efficiency. Present day aircraft structure is greatly influenced by morphing at different points of time.
SMART VEST CAM AND COMPUTER
INSTANT ACCESS TO VITAL DATA
The smart vest camera and computer is tethered as a clip on unit to a personal protective vest. The camera and computer unit is linked to an assigned duty computer via a wifi network.
What can it do?
It performs simple daily life operations like getting a glass of water, picking up objects, typing, grasping of objects and unloading of objects etc. that significantly help the physically challenged as well as other people. It is mobile always as it uses thrusters to stay mobile whenever the user wants it to be.
AMAZON is an artwork inspired by the goddess of the moon. The speakers are protected by a moulded mask permeable to the sound. Its canonical face is universal in all civilizations around the world while its silkscreen printing can adapt that mask to different countries and cultures.
That creation is particularly suitable to prestigious residences,
This project describes Quantum Vacuum Energy Extraction, an undeveloped source of clean, renewable energy via Casimir Cavity Effect principles of quantum physics.
First proposed in 1900 by Max Planck and further developed by Albert Einstein, Zero Point Energy capture was theorized in 1948 by Hendrik Casimir and granted U.S.
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