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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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What health care problem does this device solve?
The evolving field of the microbiome, the microbiome is "the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms that literally share our body space". This term was created by Joshua Lederberg to point out the importance of the many microorganisms inhabiting the human body,
The Spiral Magnetic Motor (SMM) is novel and unique since it has been proven to accelerate a permanent magnet rotor through 90% of its cycle with only permanent magnets, thus potentially providing a clean, inexhaustible source of constant torque for use as a motor or generator. The principle of applying an inhomogeneous,
The VForce® invention is a major evolutionary step in fixed wing aircraft development. High lift devices (flaps/slats) have not significantly changed since the invention of the Fowler Flap by H D Fowler in 1924.The invention provides a lighter,
1) How it works
a. This system replaces the clutch system for manual transmissions with a locking torque converter, variable vane oil pump, and a clutch pack which will operate as the clutch system for a manual transmission. Components will include a computer-controlled valve body which controls when the clutch pack engages and when the locking torque converter engages.
Introducing the Up! App
One of the biggest challenges manufacturers face today is machine downtime. When a machine goes down, it’s costing a company revenue, profit and reputation. There are also often long wait times to receive service.
A win-win for service requesters and providers
The Up!
1. Nature of Technology/Product
The Solar Mill concept is a method of integrating two different forms of solar energy collection into one efficient system. This coupling enables us to harvest energy from a wider range in the electromagnetic spectrum.
CENTIPEDE
-they never fall-
CENTIPEDE is a different approach to fall prevention. Older people know that one day they will slip and fall. Most live in fear of this, because they have seen the results of their friends falling. Tragically, every second of the day in the states an older adult falls,
Despite its appearance as a barren, hard vacuum, Low Earth Orbit (LEO) has a very precious resource: Earth’s atmosphere. The atmosphere does not end at the official boundary of space (100 km) but grows increasingly rarified to an altitude well beyond that occupied by the International Space Station. At 180 km, there is a thin mixture of nitrogen, oxygen,
The principles used in a polywell fusion reactor can also be applied, and more readily, for an electron-positron antimatter collider/reactor. Polywell fusion reactors make use of the principle that electrons require much smaller magnetic energy density in order to be magnetically confined than more massive ions. However, this principle applies equally to positrons. Thus,
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