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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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Many homes get a momentary vibration whenever a heavy vehicle contacts a manhole cover, while driving. This can cause damage to the house over time. This issue can be greatly reduced, or eliminated, by not building the manhole all the way up to the road.
The increasing popularity of helium-assisted blimps for extended monitoring or data collection applications is hindered by a critical limitation -- single-point failure when the balloon malfunctions or bursts. We introduce Janus,
In the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula, we have hard water with high mineral content. To lower the calcium we use reverse osmosis. This method use energy and required constant maintenance and supervision.
We researched and found a low-temperature and low-pressure distillation water process as an option.
There is some 60 million tons of already mined and processed critical mineral copper wasting away in local council dumps. By autonomously ploughing through the rubbish with our awrd winning MINE THE BEST. LEAVE THE REST mineral extraction mining system,
Most of the current Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) aircraft use tilting propellers or wings acted by servo-motors or actuators which increase the complexity and reduce the failure probability of the propulsion system. The cost of such a vehicle is high and the maintenance operations are complicated.
Nano OPS is revolutionizing semiconductor manufacturing with its groundbreaking Factory-in-a-Box technology. I am thrilled to share how Nano OPS is shaping the future of this industry. Inspired by nature, Nano OPS’ has developed technology to build nano and microscale electronics structures through precise assembly of nanoparticles.
The 'Check Engine Light,' or MIL (Malfunction Indicator Lamp), illuminates (sometimes flashes with potential fire hazard) on the instrument cluster (IPC) as a very important standard feature for emission control/powertrain performance warning on cars and trucks, since around 1980. However,
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A nurse measures patient glucose levels and sets the insulin infusion pump to adjust input flow for a certain rate of decrease (not too fast) and for certain boundary values (e.g. 110-180mg/dl).
An arterial line measures blood pressures,
Insurance companies are requiring a 3 point locking system for exterior inswing entry doors.
For compliance you need a new door, which are $4,000 or a $600 Kevlar tarp.
Miniaturizing a high-power 3-phase MOSFET usually sacrifices power, but I have made three 3-phase MOSFET that will not sacrifice power to miniaturize brushless motor drive application. One 3-phase MOSFET is rated for 80 amps, 40 volts and measures 10x10x1mm.
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