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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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-Enjoyed the ride in your personal vehicle.
-Experienced door-to-door service on your own schedule.
-Spent $0 on fuel, creating zero greenhouse emissions.
-Snoozed on the way in a clean, safe, peaceful environment.
Ideaz partnered with Pillar Technologies to develop the first real-time construction environment monitoring system, bringing state of the art IoT technology to the construction site.
Pillar's system helps construction and insurance companies track and reduce the risk of fire, water and mold among other environmental conditions.
Speed bumps are probably the most effective - but to the majority of users, the most annoying - way of traffic calming available in the market today. The reason being that it punishes ALL road users, whether abiding by the stringent speed limit in such areas or not.
It’s a basic Segway with handle adjustment, which will be easy to balance. Nowadays so many old people struggle to go out, many institutions are making their colleges pollution free, i.e., not allowing vehicles into the campus.
I-VED (In-Vivo Embolic Detector) refers to a novel electrical impedance spectroscopy device (European Patent Office, 3005942 Α1, 2015) for the non-intrusive detection of bubbles in the human body during Decompression Sickness, DCS (e.g. in astronauts, scuba divers, etc). Currently, acoustic devices are employed for sensing bubbles in humans. However,
RFID is a tag that can be used to track or to check availability of anything. Using RFID tag we can attach with vehicle (2 wheeler, 4 wheeler, etc.) as turning point of every street or any hub (road junction). Put passive RFID sensor to passed vehicle list with unique tag id.
Traditional cameras -- even those on the thinnest of cell phones -- cannot be truly flat due to their optics: lenses that require a certain shape and size in order to function. At Caltech, engineers have developed a new camera design that replaces the lenses with an ultra-thin optical phased array (OPA).
But how to harmonize these extremes? The vehicle has four sets composed for: Two tires (one off road and the other for high speeds), two hexagonal polymers (for high impact absorption),
Disease State: Heart failure and irregular heart rhythms (arrhythmias) result in about 1M people in the US implanted with pacing systems comprised of a pacemaker device and from 1 to 3 leads attached to the inside of the heart chambers or coronary vessels.
Contrivance of automobiles and further advancements in technology have been a revelation to the proliferating world. Many systems comprise an automobile including the prime mover, transmission system, braking system, control system etc; The automobile is energized using specific fuels. Some part of the energy from the fuel gets used to move the vehicle.
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