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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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Application of the Biefeld Brown Effect
In 1923 Professor Paul Biefeld and his student Thomas Townsend Brown discovered this effect during the test of a new type of capacitor. Basically the Biefeld Brown effect is electro gravitation.
The African wise saying: “Decapitation is not the solution to a Headache” holds sway in the current global hues and cries in reaction to the environmental nuiscance being created by the single-use plastics and the clamour for outright ban on the use.
Nature gave us challenges and solutions to these challenges are not far-fetched.
Referencing Astro2010: The Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey and 2012 National Research Council report entitled “NASA Space Technology Roadmaps and Priorities: Restoring NASA’s Technological Edge and Paving the Way for a New Era in Space”3, there is a need for large aperture, lightweight mirrors for future UV/Optical telescopes.
Bamboo, Banana stem, Coconut Husk (Coir), Reed Grass, Abaca etc have high sp.strength fibers, capable of competing with structural steel and glass fibers. A rough estimate is that all these vegetation fibers together form over 300 million T, worldwide. Currently not used for any engineered structural systems in a significant way, they are waiting to be utilized,
The Water Wonder Discoverer is an optimised development of our 2014 Australian Mining Prospect Award WIN in innovative mining solutions with a 3D down-the-hole high water pressure drilling/cutting technology.
The initial package is an environmentally better alternative to extract shale oil and gas without fracking. The same technology can have input in heat pumps,
A fabricated band, tightens around crown of head on one end, and suspends overhead from hook, on other end. Suspending your entire body, stretching your spine, and strengthening your neck muscles, while totally relaxing, is the novelty of this invention. It would be applied at home, a health care center, or gymnasium anywhere.
With the previous experience I had regarding about this contest with a new concept by keeping in mind that "Design is a Continuous Process of Concentration in which each step has to be worked through carefully to the end.”
INTRODUCTION :
The BMW ActiveCity is a small electric premium vehicle for the year 2025. Having the body shape of a compact 3 door hatchback, this vehicle offers private means of future transportation through crowded cities in an economical, refreshing, and fun way.
Problem: For all rotary wing devices, propellers, helicopter rotors, wind turbines, etc., there is an optimum twist to the blade for a given flow of air through the rotor disc. In most cases, the chosen twist is not optimum, and further, the use of rigid blades means that in variable flow conditions, gusts, the lift is not uniform.
"The arc shelf" is a curved shelf that eliminates the time-consuming hassle of folding pullovers - t-shirts, sweaters and sweatshirts - especially long sleeve garments. Instead of folding a user just drapes the garment over the curved shelf. To allow multiple shelves to be used above or under each other or any obstruction (e.g., hanging clothes),
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