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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 conceptual project:
A device for electronic replacement of coins in shops.
1. Work principles:
- completely electronics;
- electro-mechanical.
WhalePower is in the process of developing a range of new, more efficient fans for computer cooling. Our corporation holds the patent to develop new fans, turbines, pumps and compressors improved by a unique blade shape, enhanced by bumps on the leading edges of the rotor blades called "tubercles." This innovation was discovered by WhalePower’s President, Dr. Frank Fish,
What with this Hydrogen production and use, its all very well having no fuel bills to worry about, Hyperspace travel (does anyone know how to steer in hyperspace under rocket power?) and saving the Earth as we go about it, but as we all know, Hydrogen is dangerous stuff.
Cutting of stencils on mylar, paper,or plastic sheets for artwork is usually by Exacto knives, or by modified soldering irons. In this idea, the metal tip of a ballpoint pen is replaced with a glass ball through which a laser beam is focused onto the paper or plastic sheet with which the stencil is to be cut.
The Solar Energy Collection and Transfer Satellite uses a system of EMBs (Electro-Mechanical Batteries, Figure 1) to store energy collected by solar panels located on the satellite. EMBs store energy through spinning a composite flywheel with an electric motor, which is incorporated into the battery. You can use the electricity by using the motor as a generator,
Consists of LED array and driver circuit that uses novel idea to lower power usage over standard LED lamps, simplifies manufacturing, can be applied to medical theraphy LED lamps in all its light spectrum, can be applied to several lighting products, simplified driver circuitry eliminating complex electronic drivers with simpler more cost effective design.
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We have a million models of mobile phones in our midst but I have not yet come across a model with a built-in intercom which can facilitate two-way communication between two authenticated parties using the GHz range or a WiFi protocol within a short range of say 100 metres.
“Is 150 Year Old Technology the Best Design for the Next 100 years of High Speed Rail (HSR)?”
For over 150 years, one structural rail technology has been used to transport both (1) bulk items such as coal, grains, chemicals, and containerized cargo; and (2) people. Today,
This invention channels wave energy through float weights, cables, hydraulics and a generator into electricity for public use.
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Float weights* move up and down on the surface of water with each wave. The up and down motion of the float weights are transmitted into linear cable motion.
This design responds to concerns regarding electric car solutions (battery, mileage per charge, charging the batteries.. etc.) it also responds to congestion problems and provides mobility to underage, elderly, handicapped as well as any individual who is interested in arriving to their destination in the fastest way possible without bothering with driving instructions, directions,
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