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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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The Magnetic Renewable Engine is a clean and green Mechanical Renewable Energy System powered by electricity. It is the combination of two systems, the Electromagnetic Reciprocating Engine and an Electrical Supply System.
The Electromagnetic Reciprocating Engine is the combustion engine without the combustion. The secret lies in “Can a magnetic force push down on a piston”
With "concussions" so much in the news of late we decided to go beyond what the NFL is doing with sensors in the helmet monitoring the impact forces to be WI Fi'd to the side line to engage "Concussion Protocol.
A composite material that is used in aeronautical engineering has limitations about maintenance. Any damage that happened in composite materials requires different methods of maintenance. Composite materials have damage tolerances in normal conditions. According to damage degree that is possible to maintain related part. In normal conditions scarfing and making patches are common methods for composite material repairing.
However,
Nowadays safety and time are major issues. We all know that gas booking is a time consuming task and also there can be the problem of gas leakage. In present situation most of the accidents occur due to gas leakage which cause damage to innocent people's lives and their property. In India gas distributors uses IVRS,
One of the most serious problems in highly populated areas is increasing number of cars day by day and that leads to even more serious problem of parking cars.The insufficient space leads to traffic jams on roads causing stress mentally and physically during travel.
Pollution is the major problem in the universe, air pollution being one of the predominant among them. Air pollution is mainly caused due to the exhaust gases coming out of the vehicles and industries. This is caused mainly due to burning of fuel and gases emanating from chimneys. In an effort to control this pollution,
Domestic Laundry Center (Pat pending)
Laundry is a domestic activity not entirely automatized, only washing and drying can be performed by appliances, while ironing and subsequent folding of garments still represents a heavy chore for housewives. In this proposal we want to solve such problem,
Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe. With more and more people flow into the city and more and more social app appear, do you still remember what is solitude? Generally speaking, solitude means no communication with others. However, different inner motivations results in different forms of "solitude",
Impulse type turbine applicable with extended tubular passageway is depicted in Figures shown at left. This turbine is made to extract energy from jets of water. It departs from the existing impulse type turbines by having the nozzles inject water radially outwards to impel buckets arranged along the outskirt circumferentially.
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