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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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In India thousands of railways travel everyday from one destination to another. The engine is the most important device of railway and it works on the principle of conversion of heat energy into mechanical energy.
A large amount of heat is dissipated through the fins from the engine when it starts and runs.
Fast build of relatively simple three dimensional “green” parts is achieved by stacking and laminating two dimensional cutouts made from sheets of metal powder bound together by a thermoplastic polymer such that the stack forms the desired three dimensional shape. The “green”
A system generating electricity using External Magnetic Field (ExMF); based on the Universal Energies (UE), derived from the new fundamental physics (), is shown in Fig.
The current invention relates to improvements in basic gross measurement tools. It is an improvement on what may be the oldest of measuring instruments. It is particularly suited to people that "don't look so good". As you get older and your eyesight begins to fail, you can no longer resolve the finer divisions on a scale.
Hello, Everyone. This is team Blue Energy Australia. My name is David Huang. I am the founder of Blue Energy Australia. I am also an inventor. My invention is a heat engine, which can be used in automobiles for transport, electricity generation, renewable energy storage, emission reduction, industrial and mining business etc.
This invention presents an isolated way to implement scavenge in 2-stroke opposed-piston engine ----- by a free-piston running between two opposed- pistons. During scavenge process, the incoming fresh charge would always be sealed and separated from the burnt gas by the free piston. The result could be not only eliminating the mixing of the fluids,
The Challenge: X-ray CT Medical Imaging has proven to be a very useful technique for observation of physical details inside of the human body. Unfortunately for young children, the Brenner Team of researchers at Columbia University has shown that the X-rays themselves can be dangerous.
In most of the under developed nations, access to basic health care is scarce. A heater is an indispensable device for many applications, especially for medical purposes. As such, a simple and easy to make heater from readily available materials becomes valuable equipment to help alleviate the human health problems.
BERP rotor improvements provide an advantage in maneuverability/precise positioning/ low vibration levels and fast reacting low level situations. The increase in lift efficiency will also penetrate many civil markets/ based on the reduced fuel consumption for the same load carrying capacity (Technical description courtesy of Agusta Westland).
Our Create the Future design entry is a revolutionary new, generic, mechanical fastener system based on the interaction of two key elements: a “split-tongue” and its mating groove, as shown in Figure 1.
The split-tongue consists of a support base with two protruding flexible arms, each arm have outward facing nubs at their distal ends.
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