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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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A conventional supercharger is installed near the engine either above the cylinder block or in front of the engine. One of the problems of the installation of a supercharger at such a place is that as the engine gets heated to high temperature, the supercharger also gets overheated.
In the U.S. over 33,000 people die annually in automobile accidents and 40% are rear end collisions. That’s 2.5 million rear end collisions!
The SPEEDLIGHT is a patented taillight system for the automotive industry that informs drivers whether the vehicles in front of them are accelerating, decelerating, in a panic stop, riding the brake,
Water is one of life’s necessities, yet for over 700 million people, a clean and reliable source of water is out of reach. Especially prevalent in remote and low-resource regions, water insecurity claims over 5 million lives every year. In these areas, 
Consumer exploitation has been one of the major problems facing most countries especially where a fixed price policy has failed. You will experience that in most of our banks, hotels, supermarkets, and other product and service providers, the prices of the same product/service, brand and quality varies from shop to shop.
Freedom1 has a radically tapered front end , including the bumper, the hood and the nose. If this vehicle is about to collide with another vehicle or structure, all the driver must do is steer 6"
Kuma: Electric Vehicle for micromobility
Today, traffic jams and pollution are a part of everyday life in big cities and they have become one of the main problems for the quality of urban life.
In recent years, the number of cars has increased dramatically due to its prioritization over other transport modes.
But as with any roof rack,
The X-drive is an elegantly simple device designed to improve the quality of life of wheel chair users. Its design was developed using interviews from wheel chair users and industry retailers/manufacturers. The X-drive fills the need for an inexpensive and convenient method to convert conventional wheel chairs into powered wheel chairs on a permanent or temporary basis.
Excess heat is a problem in electronic systems. Traditional solutions involve conducting heat energy away from the heat generating device through a heat sink to be dissipated to moving air or liquid.
FRUGAL 5 CYCLE ENGINE
The Frugal 5 Cycle engine design solves the 120 plus year old goal of combustion at constant volume, which is the most efficient way to combust the air/fuel mixture in a piston driven internal combustion engine.
With true constant volume combustion,
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