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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 proposed solution focuses on using a combination of solar energy and super-capacitors to reduce the dependency of large vehicles (e.g.: Buses) on conventional energy and in parallel enhance battery life by preventing deep discharge cycles.
Although a lot of advancements are happening in the direction of employing clean energy in the automotive sector (e.g.: Electric vehicles),
The world today is concerned about saving the environment. Everywhere measures have been taken up to reduce pollution. Major amount of air pollution is caused by vehicle running on roads. They contribute to most of the air pollution hence engineers today focus on building an eco-friendly engine which can reduce the pollution caused by vehicles.
Design concept of this project is simple: to reduce exhaust emission & satisfy emission norms in INDIA. Device contains one cylinder, one filter & two pipe connections -- one to connect exhaust silencer to cylinder & another to cylinder to open air.
The International Space Station (ISS) is subject to debris traveling at great speed from almost any direction. Normally debris is tracked by ground radar. However, it is limited in the size that it can see and sensor on Earth position. Therefore, a space based system would be desirable to detect debris and warn the ISS.
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The sensor system is an intelligent damage detection “skin” that can be embedded into structures, providing a lightweight capability for in-situ health monitoring for space or aircraft vehicles, inflatables, deployables, extravehicular activities (EVA) suits, smart wearables, and other applications where prognostic impact damage monitoring might be critical.
When it comes to upgrading our homes and offices, we think of almost anything. However, we are never ready to be prepared for the worst conditions like earthquakes.
Sadly a lot of people have suffered from natural disasters like earthquakes causing death and serious injuries. One of the recent ones being in Nepal,
Built for exceptional speed on fairly calm water, it is a pedal-powered racer with highly advanced fluid dynamical design features integrated into a lightweight surface-skimming hull, fabricated in polystyrene foam reinforced by polythene skin and steel tubing endoskeleton.
Deep frying is not possible by method steam generator boiler. In the present conventional method for deep frying of commercially food manufacture unit, the utensils (vessel) are heated directly over the burner but in my innovative method, the vessel (jacketed kettle) is heated by the circulation (by ¼ H.P. motor pump) of hot oil. Its nobility is its energy efficiency,
Today, in the midst of our fast paced life and era of technology, a visually impaired person is still in a state of confusion as to how to reach their destination. Due to his impairment, the fellow is unable to find directions to the destination i.e.
Massive amounts of energy are used to propel vehicles through wind resistance. There is a worldwide environmental problem with millions of waste tyres from vehicles. I am attempting to use the idea to overcome the environmental problem as well as use the energy from moving vehicles to generate power to light up street lights.
Using a light,
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