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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 population of planet Earth stands at 7.4 billion and is projected to break the nine billion mark by 2040. As concerns about the dwindling resources on our planet continue to escalate, it has become clear that we will need to develop ways in the near future to produce more energy, food and water with less resources.
GSM-based calling system is basically a project for the coal mine workers who put their lives at risk when they enter the mines for work. Mines are deep down beneath the Earth where there is no signal for making even an emergency call and hence once the mine worker enters the mine,
The revolutionary FrictionLess-Gear© [FLG] and Continuously Variable FLG [CV-FLG] provide absolute minimum product size, mass/weight, friction, cost, and energy/fuel requirement, resulting in highest performance - maximal operating speeds, specific torque capacity, reliability, safety factor, longevity, energy output in power generation and solution overall - at any scale.
Introduction
Combining a traditional building material (ceramics) with a new fabrication technique (3D printing) to re-think an ancient building component (bricks), this project demonstrates how 3D printers can become portable, inexpensive brick factories for large-scale construction. Bricks are an ancient building component and their fabrication has seen several innovations throughout history;
Arguably, man-made climate change represents potentially greater peril than global thermonuclear war. Carbon-free renewable-energy transformation, previously “economically beneficial,” becomes essential. Pending Earthbound thermonuclear power, stellar (solar-generated) hydrogen offers optimal alternatives. Given real-estate,
Imagine a world where outer space is not all that distant. It is a world where we all can take a spacewalk – not just a select few astronauts. It is a world where people travel from the Earth to Mars, maybe not regularly, but it’s as simple as booking a ticket. It’ 
The first classical transistor was invented at Bell Labs in 1947, which gave rise to the electronics industry of the 20th century. However, Moore’s law – which has described the rapid technological developments of this industry – will soon come to an end. Once the features of the transistor hardware are reduced in length to approximately ten atoms across,
The project has its bases in two existing technologies. The first one is a multirotor drone and the second is an articulated robot. Their combination results in a DROBOT. The main purpose of this project is to combine both flexibility characteristics to ensure feasibility of some tasks.
Significant turbulence is created by airflow from moving vehicles. This turbulent air is an untapped, kinetic-energy resource. This turbulence is difficult to harness due to the chaotic intensity and irregular vectors of the energy. A system—HEAT—is proposed to convert this turbulence into useful electric current. This turbulence is predictable and sustainable,
ThorPad combines the well-known mushroom-shaped interface of the conventional suction cup with the amazing adhesive properties of modern polymers.
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