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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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Commercial Vehicles such as trucks and trailers usually get stuck up in muddy trenches or in snow with one of wheels in the trench and the other on level ground. With an open differential, driver’s effort to pull the vehicle out normally ends up with one wheel, which is rotating still going deeper into the trench.
Diamond based winding insulation for electrical machines - ABB Motors and Generators
Electrical conductors for electrical machines, such as electromotor or generator, are insulated for avoiding contact between the single coil and other conductive components of the electromotor for example the stator. For instance, the main wall insulation (e.g.
This is an IoT based project which is designed for home security. This project is designed for home security of each and every citizen of our country. Not like other security systems, the objective of this project is that it is economically feasible i.e. every common man can afford it.
Lots of times we have watched on TV police pursuing the suspect's car, It took hours to stop. It was dangerous - harmful to innocent people. I was worried about that. Then I made this product helping the police to stop a suspect's' car. I tried it in a safe place a couple of years ago. It worked great!
Hover bike is a flying robot, which works on the principle of a combination of lift generation as in a helicopter, and maneuvering of a bike. With this technique humans will experience a new way of flying and driving in mid air. The hover bike has the ability of having Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL),
The autonomous drone is equipped with a GPS or a similar navigation system. The drone follows people for security protection. For example, children playing outside the house out of view of an adult or guardian, and the drone will be able to alert them if a dangerous situation occurs. The drone connects to a cell phone,
This submittal addresses further development of Carbon Blocks per provisional patent BJR 17-001 Prov, Carbon Blocks Made from Photosynthetic Plant Biomass for Long Term Sequestration of the Carbon from Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, and Process for Manufacture (4/5/17). These blocks provide an extremely simple, but effective, measurable,
The Haptic Driver Feedback System is an advanced driver assist device that uses haptic feedback to alert the driver to multiple driving situations. It interfaces with the vehicle's computer to use data from various on-board systems to provide more effective driver assists.
The HDFS, in base trim, plugs directly into the vehicle's ECU through a wireless module.
Aero Vitae is a system to solve the interconnected issues of air quality and water purification. We propose using a cascade system of organic digesters and aeroponics to directly dispose of city waste water and airborne particulate. Indirect benefits will be a local cooling effect and oxygen enrichment.
The first stage will be similar to normal water treatment,
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