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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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ExoHab is a high-performance, sustainability ecosystem for space and Earth. The ExoHab concept is an open, plug-and-play framework for small, standalone space habitats or networks of habitats and work facilities.
At a hardware level, the ExoHab ecosystem would be built around 6.1 meter long,
Space exploration can advance rapidly once there is widespread interest, adoption and access by a large fraction of humanity, whose skills and talents can bring new and innovative thinking to the most pressing challenges in the field. One of the major barriers to space exploration is the high rocket launch costs.
In retrospect the basic idea behind recycling, is to reuse materials from an existing structure or product in to a new structure or product. But recycling usually takes several stages over a long period of time. What If there was another way to achieve the same effect.
Indian Railways' Data shows 40% Accidents and 68% Deaths - 613 persons killed during 5 year period 2011~16 - happen at Unmanned Level Crossings, ULCs. Indian Railways plan to eliminate 6352 ULCs, out of total 9340 ULCs, investing Rs.75 billion and Annual Recurring Cost of Rs.3 billion.
This Design Proposal enables Safe, Automatic Operation of all 9340 ULCs,
Abstract
Quantum Entanglement is a new and interesting phenomena that has NIST researchers relaying and possibly setting up the first quantum Internet [1], with a distance of ~105Km
Methods
Cat7 cable, ATT WIFI/Fiber Modem and Server located at the University of Texas at Austin. Sent a Picture of a comic book (Mon-El) From Oklahoma City (Moore, OK) to Austin, Texas.
Listening to music while traveling or commuting endangers the life of the user and this may prove fatal. Hence the idea is to use the same entertaining device as an alert system while commuting. Sonorous- a smart AI used to alert the user while listening music and traveling on road.
My new invention is an economical inflatable electrical car.
It is a compact, very economic, 3 seats , 3 wheels electrical car. Very safe for the occupant but also for anyone who would get hit by this car.
The floor has a rigid platform which contains batteries, suspension and electrical motors.
The windmill is a standard green energy conversion system that uses the mechanical input produced by blades that capture the surrounding wind currents, redirecting them in order to create a rotational force that then turns a shaft connected to a generator that produces electrical current. Most often, windmills generate their electricity using a permanent magnet machine, i.e. generator.
The YZ400A is a prototype electric dirt bike design derived from an existing generation of Yamaha 4-stroke motorcycles. The goal of the project is to create a low cost electrification conversion that can be an alternative to rebuilding a failed engine. The benefits of electric motorcycles are typically offset by their high cost.
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