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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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A garment hanger called Plico 2 solves the perennial problem of the narrow neck hole by folding for easy insertion without complicated mechanics. The upper illustration (Fig. 1) and the video show how it works.
When T-shirts, turtleneck tops and polo shirts are displayed for retail on conventional hangers to optimize visibility,
An economical robotic book scanner capable of converting books of any size into JPEGs without destroying the binding.
Scanners used now-a-days requires an operator to manually scan each and every page of a book. This seems irritating and is time-taking. Also,
I have designed a new geometrically shaped plastic bottle called as the JIGSAW BOTTLE which can replace the current plastic bottles which are used in market for transportation of soft-drinks and carbonated drinks.
The reasons behind this geometry are:-
– To reduce the space wastage.
– To increase the number of units that can be transported at once.
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Self-Healing Alternator Control for Light Aircraft
Aircraft today are loaded with electronics. So having electrical power available is critical for safe flight. The sole device for producing this power is the aircraft’s alternator. Unfortunately, the present state-of-the-art for controlling it is not totally reliable. So a unique method has been developed to improve this.
The Hyper4 (a 4 stroke, 4 cylinder engine) improves the fuel efficiency of internal combustion engines by up to 75% (as reflected by Simulink Matlab and Converge CFD modelling software), approaching 50% brake thermal efficiency in a unique, compact axial design that is both straightforward and inexpensive to manufacture. Unlike a standard inline engine,
First off about the device- The device would contain a gas sensor to measure the density of different gasses generated by the waste and also measure the weight of garbage container by using surface mounted weighting system.
[0001] Some roof systems provide vegetation growth on a roof of a building or other structure, which roof systems may be referred to as green roof systems. Typical green roof systems include a waterproof membrane applied to the surface of the roof, a layer of soil or other growing medium provided on top of the membrane,
The report deals with the concept of using flapping wing as a mode of flight for light unmanned aerial vehicles. Using biomimetics, the study of a bird flight is made followed by the design proposal which mimics this bird flight mechanism.
Three important factors guarantee the performance of a generation chain of renewable energy are their efficiency, production cost and simplicity of the control algorithm to achieve a practical implementation in real time. Thus, three-generation chain structures of renewable energy are presented and studied in this paper for a selective comparative study to knowledge:
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