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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 Real-Time Electric Bill Monitor is a device that allows the house owner to know minute by minute the amount of money his Electric Bill will be as if it were billed in that very moment. The Electric Bill Monitor is not intended to measure the energy;
The Find Me Safety® Platform is the only proven and reliable cloud/server-based communication engine that monitors active GPS tracks and delivers exception reports to designated contacts if you have not arrived at your destination as expected, or have been involved in a disaster and need assistance.
The piezoelectric rotary actuator is a new positioning device, providing exeptional dynamics and accuracy even if connected to heavy loads. The main applications are tracking, guidance, deflection and positioning systems (e.g. antenna, laser, telescope, camera, mirror), aileron control, locking systems and valve actuation.
Since the commercialization of piezoelectric injection systems within the automotive industry,
Smartphone falling impact protection, it’s application
Problem Statement
Today’s era is of smartphones, pc-tablets. These gadgets have thin and large touch-screens with very high sensitivity. The major problem with these gadgets is no availability of good protection from damage as they fall from a height. Mostly,
Problem Statement
Ships/marine vehicles are used to carrying large amount of goods/passengers. These vehicles required large area/volume ratio of vehicle, so that required magnitude of upward force by water can achieve (according to Archimedes’ principle) or we can say, if we want to carry large total weight, we have to increase size and strength (weight) of ship/marine vehicle also. Whereas,
Demand for rapid delivery of certain goods or product under specified temperature conditions is commonly seen in today’s society. Industry or medical samples, fresh food, emergency medical supplies are some of the examples of this kind. The required delivery from point A to point B should be safe, accurate and on-time.
Imagine, you’re an astronaut and you have just landed on the surface of the moon or Mars, and you need to repetitively travel between the interior of your inflatable airlock and the harsh surface environment to conduct an experiment. It isn’t as simple as turning a doorknob or unzipping a tent, as we might do on earth.
Every day in the US 2.08 billion gallons of water are applied to Golf Courses. Just think how much water can be saved by only watering a Golf Course, Sports Field, or your own Lawn and Garden once a week. Trillions of gallons of water can potentially be saved using the new HydraMat™ by EcosPure.
What if solar electricity was cheaper than fossil fuel power? How would that drive our economy and stabilize geo-political tensions? How would the climate change for the better? How would access to basic lighting help to reduce poverty on a global scale?
The major challenge in integrating wind energy into the electrical grid is that the resource is intermittent and unpredictable so that energy is always available. With an energy storage system integrated with a wind turbine, surplus energy can be stored and then regenerated when demand is higher.
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