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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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Future Communication & Entertainment of Humans by Illuminating Air for Displaying Images by Thinking
After years of research, I was able to scientifically explain and develop ancient Hindu art of Maya (vision by displaying images on air). It’s a method to illuminate air by thinking. Ancient Hindu sacred texts and epics are filled with narration of This kind of communication and display technologies,
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Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) surgery is performed to treat the number one human killer, heart disease. This is one of the most common surgical procedures in the world, (about 500,000 cases a year in the US). An important part of the surgery is harvesting the vessel that will be used as a graft.
Today we have ultra modern toilets but for flushing we still use water even if we go for urine at least for urine purpose we human waste 1 to 5 litre whether we are in public toilet or home. My method is simple instead water we can use sand as this sand can be recyclable by
Adjustment of the compression ratio in a running piston engine as a function of operating conditions is recognized as an effective way to improve both light load efficiency and maximum output torque, and is perhaps the last major efficiency improvement available to piston engines in the quest to reach the 2025 CAFE standard of 54.5 mpg.
1. It provides a solution to range anxiety similar to a “jump” start for a distressed driver emergency.
2. It provides a cost effective alternative to stand-by automatic generators for home power outages.
Range anxiety is an ongoing concern for BEVs.
This is a crowdmap comprising over 15000 organizations world over, offering medical, legal, education / employment, resources (food, shelter, clothing, emergency support), police and ambulance services for women who have faced violence. Often, women who have faced violence either don’t know where to go for help, or don’t have resources to find out where to go for help. Sometimes,
Need for Clean Water
Pollution by heavy metals (HMs) is a crucial environmental issue. With the modern growth of chemical, mining, energy, tanning and dye industries plenty of residual HMs - Hg, Pb, Cd, Cr and others - are discharged into the ambience. These toxic contaminants end up in a potable water and being invisible and tasteless to humans,
Connected vehicles will reduce traffic collisions, reduce road congestion, ease commuting, pave the way for autonomous vehicles, and reduce pollution. Hermes Optical Protection System (HOPS) combines LEDs, a digital projection system such as LCDs or micromirrors and a optical sensor into a vehicle light.
Placed in the headlights and tail lights, this system provides an inexpensive system for short-range,
The Virtual Reality Deicer Simulator puts you on the runway inside a deicing vehicle, either as a driver or a sprayer. We've developed our software to work and mimic the controls and movements of the actual enclosed cab deicing vehicle. The VR Deicer Sim base, houses the identical proportional joysticks used to control boom movement,
The Hoplite Armor Hard Armor Shoulder Plates, or HASP, was developed in order to address a very specific need within the body armor industry by providing rifle rated protection to the wearer specifically designed to protect the vital organs from lateral impacts. While numerous advances have taken place with regards to body armor materials over the last decade,
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