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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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Cars have always played a major part in our dreams. Unfortunately, as traffic became gridlocked, driving a car in urban areas became a nightmare. What’s more, cars and oil have practically bankrupted us to the tune of tens of trillions of dollars and have brought upon us wars and global warming.
Owners of helicopters may have staff who utilise helicopter flight time which is not charged out. Not only is this practice dishonourable but is also dangerous as numbers of critical helicopter components are time expired and have a finite safe flight/use time.
Conventional engine hour clocks can be manipulated to obtain any desired reading.
The design proposed here talks about the economically and ecologically friendly energy from sunlight and from house hold waste that can be utilized
- to meet the energy needs,
- to grow vegetables on the roof or in the garden and
- to save water and cooking gas.
Coming to the problem statement,
Unfortunately, many times these designs change the structure of the road.
In printing manufacturing (Sheet Fed), maintenance is required to be done on printing rollers (40" to 65"). These presses are on average 4 to 6 ft. from the floor and rollers can be 20-60 lbs. ea. taking 3 men to do rollers in each unit.
Based upon a need to contain and dispense a substance, a vessel and a spigot were invented. Both are stationary devices. Transporting a substance was either by animals, or mechanical means that limited, restricted, regulated distances and locations. To resolve this problem the RoFo BevDisHeadgear beverage dispenser transports a substance,
My proposed Supercharged Engine Design incorporates a "compressor" cylinder (#2) into a 3-cylinder modular engine in which cylinders #1 and #3 are internal combustion cylinders. The engine is equipped with Direct Fuel Injection.
It is known that when measuring microscopic test objects used in the optical microscope, specially manufactured test objects are expensive. We have proposed as a test object using the CD-ROM matrix.
The standard distance between tracks is 1,6 ± 0,1 mm.
Ancon Medical has developed a non-evasive disruptive early stage screening and disease detection device that is “once in a generation technology” known as Nanoparticle Bio-marker Tagging (NBT). NBT will have a similar impact to market as MRI and X-Ray and will use breath screening and detection through VOC Bio-marker Identification. However,
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