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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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Think of why Tesla is a game changer in the EV space. While their vehicles are very innovative, their vast charging network is a large reason why they are so popular. Now, the most popular electric vehicles in the US/World today aren't actually electric cars, but electric bikes and other smaller forms of mobility.
In order to control the use of weapons in a neighborhood, school, business or event, this system would utilize a dual camera design from the same lens. One, a microbolometer would take an IR image and the other a standard CCTV image. The computer would use pattern recognition to find the shape of a gun, knife or other weapon.
The hydrogen conversion is the classic chicken-egg problem:
Since the infrastructure of the filling stations is not sufficient, few H2-powered vehicles are manufactured and because too few vehicles are bought, there is no incentive to set up filling stations!
As is well known,
The CURVD® Ergonomic mug adds a new level of comfort to your morning coffee. The award-winning patent-pending handle transfers the weight of the drink to the muscles and not to the joints. 
Transport needs in the coming years will be growing. Strong emphasis will have to be placed on servicing new patterns of trade and on meeting the requirements of increased activities in agriculture. Expenditures for transport will be large.
In dealing with transport, subject areas are the various modes, the two elements, infrastructure and equipment,
Did you know that every plane is equipped with a so called fuel tank inerting system that is used to suppress the oxygen concentration at low level to prevent an unexpected explosion accident? Yes, every airplane has all that to secure the aviation traffic safety, based on the guideline by FAA.
ALIFE®AIR is an innovative engineering company dedicated to the development of a sustainable "Zero Emission - Fuel" solution.
Our approach is to be less of a disruption to existing industry, instead leveraging their existing support infrastructure to develop a global deployable solution. We hope to encourage fast adoption in the process.
Consistently, backing accidents account for 25% of all motor vehicle accidents. Preventing damage and injuries due to these also means reducing the risk of related lawsuits and lost time for companies and their employees. According to the FMCSA, up to 30% of fatal crashes and 12% of injury cases in work zones were wrecks involving trucks,
The Gravity Induced Power Plant is an electricity generator based on the free-fall (gravity-induced) of capsules loaded with highly magnetized buckminsterfullerene (or buckyball) along a helical tube. The power plant is self-sustained by lifting the capsules by means of magnetic levitation.
IDEA/SOLUTION:
• failure to locate faults/ problems/ errors etc instantly
• reduce/ zero-out fraudulent activities by the ATM machines
• reduce password forget-ability eg regenerating passwords time & again
• account holder tracker, it allow clients to view balance through links
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