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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 both the chemical and mechanical pulping process, the logs are cut into wood chips by a cone shape tool before fiber separation. To make the wood chopping process more efficient, one has to investigate in detail the coupling between process parameters and the quality of the chips.
Since its invention by Otto Bayer in 1937 to create a fiber that could compete with nylon, polyurethane (PU) has been widely used worldwide in the production of foams, rubbers, and protective coatings or sealants. polyurethane is a macromolecule or polymer formed by reaction of two precursors, a polyol and a diisocyanate.
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My entry is a Raspberry Pi3/Navio2 flight controller based drone
using ArduPilot, Linux, Mission Planner, and Gstreamer Open Source SW, state of the art HD cameras, and Onboard GPS
All traffic carried over 4G network
High Throughput, unlimited distance,
Low Latency, 5G ready
Tire pressure monitoring sensors (TPMS) attempt to remedy this problem by continually monitoring the tires’ pressure,
If you have a drivers license, then at some time or another you sat at a traffic light with no cross traffic wondering why you are sitting there, wasting time. It is not a matter of "timing" traffic lights so traffic flows more steadily but upgrading traffic signals to recognize patterns, time of day, and conditions.
The ability to construct multiple-perspective images of natural or synthesized scenes is growing rapidly driven by advances in computational power and image capture technology. In principle these images provide the input data for virtual reality hologram-like displays that produce light fields that approximate the light from a real object,
The Concept of the System [Photo 1] is to orientate a solar collector and a Polyhedral Structure [Photo 2] to face the Sun with “Azimuthal” tracking of 270 deg and “ Altitudinal” 90 deg. *
The concept is based on the idea of combining a signal indicating the direction of the sun rays,
This device can interpret your mood (emotional) state, using biosensors then proceeding to select music (in your car, phone, ipod) that will bring you to an emotional “balanced” state.
From the tribal drums of our ancient ancestors to today’s unlimited streaming services, music is an integral part of the human experience.
Flying Balloon Mars Rover (Robot)
After nearly two years on the surface of Mars, the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity have returned a wealth of valuable information from their wanderings. But the pace of their explorations is painfully slow, covering only a few miles since their mission began. Orbiters can certainly cover the surface of a planet much more quickly,
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