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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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PROBLEM
People problematically procrastinate too much on their phones which can be disruptive to their lives. Being slaves to these devices creates Stockholm syndrome. Who is really in control?
CONTEXT
CASE STUDY 1
94% of all phone owners (between the ages of 18-35 aka Generation Y) use their phones as an alarm. Furthermore,
American weapons sometimes fall into the hands of our enemies. Whether this is a jet, a tank, a howitzer, a truck, a Stinger missile, a TOW missile, a Javelin missile, a JDAM, a machine gun, a battlefield laser, a night vision system, or a bomb, etc.,
Flying Wind Turbine
An airborne wind turbine is a design concept for a wind turbine with a rotor supported in the air without a tower, thus benefiting from more mechanical and aerodynamic options, the higher velocity and persistence of wind at high altitudes, while avoiding the expense of tower construction.
Airborne wind turbines may operate in low or high altitudes.
Hybrid vehicle of series-parallel type may have dual mode to improve performances and energy efficiency. Unfortunately, the shifting of the mode may involve complications with additional planetary gears, friction clutches and complex control system.
Here after, a special dog clutch can avoid such complexities and in addition, can suppress torque disruption, even during electric-hybrid change.
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Bone anchored hearing systems are a reality in today's world and the need for them is proven by a commercially viable patient base. However, although osseous integration is largely successful not only in anchored hearing devices but even more extensively in dental implants,
Air conditioning is one of the energy hogs around. If you live in Texas, you spend an extra 150$ a month in the summer months, for a 2500. sq ft. home, on cooling.
This project is a way to reduce or eliminate that bill. Every kilometer you go up in air, temperature drops 6 ºC in the Troposphere,
RANGE DETECTION CAMERA
The Range Detection Camera (RDC) can measure the distance from each pixel to the point on the object that is in focus at the pixel. Each pixel has both light intensity and range information. There is no stereoscopic effect involved.
There is a light guiding post at each pixel that functions as a passive LIDAR,
It is the intersection of a cube and a sphere, a three dimensional sine wave, a pattern found all throughout the world. At high speed a traditional wheel suffers from the effect known as “speed wobble” which causes the driver to lose control and the damage could not be controlled at such a high speed.
HitchonPost is an accessory that attaches to a standard Class II, III and IV hitch receiver on any vehicle. It provides a more secure and convenient means of carrying a personal transportation device (PTD) such as an electric wheel chair, scooter, Segway or similar device without the need for large, expensive and cumbersome lift, ramp or trailers.
The fouling of environment, excessive water use and threat to
workforce are the underlying negative image plaque denting this US$ 79
Billion Leather industry by 2014 valuation.
We've developed, prototyped and patented novel 60-minute fast
acting biobased cellulose derived products which overcomes this menace
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