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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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I was walking through a street one late evening when I noticed a tailor in the street. The mechanical energy available at the machine can be converted into electrical energy without disturbing the regular work of the tailor and also with the minor modification in the existing machine.
A system for displaying multiple video/audio programs from at least one database of stored video/audio segments such that the program displayed is a non-repeating permutation of such stored segments each time the program is run. That is, each time the system is operated, it generates a new film from stored film content.
A number of technologies are available that allow hydrophilic drugs to be absorbed through the skin rather than the GI tract. Transdermal delivery through the skin has a number of advantages over oral delivery, including better absorption, greater flexibility in how the drugs are administered and more choices for patients in how they receive their medication.
Currently available, state-of-the-art, Flame Detectors are too large, too heavy, too power hungry, too slow to respond, and completely unsuitable for many applications requiring: low weight and smaller size, operations on next-to-no power, an immediate and effective response of fire suppression equipment for both personnel safety and expensive/critical equipment protection,
The world is transforming itself as a global village. People are travelling all over & experimenting. The invention is a chopstick straw that help people enjoy a meal better with the devise.
The chopstick acts as a straw & hence the soup can be drained from a bowl making the morsel easily accessible. Apart from this,
Storage of electrical energy is a growing problem.
This concept is based on the well-known pumped storage, which is a type of hydroelectric power generation. The method stores energy in the form of water, pumped from a lower elevation reservoir to a higher elevation. Low-cost off-peak electric is used to run the system pumps.
Recent earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, and the tsunami in Indonesia, destroyed local energy and communications infrastructure. Friends and family were often unable to contact loved ones for days or weeks. My entry allows people affected by a disaster to make contact within hours,
This proposal relates to conceptual design of "valved two stroke engine with extended expansion". In a four stroke engine, power stroke occurs once in a two rotation whereas in a two stroke power stroke occurs once in each rotation. Theoretically a two stroke engine produces double the power of four stroke engine .
“L.I.B.E.R.O.” is a patented fire fighting system which offers particular safety characteristics since it is not an obstacle to navigation. It has been thought to be used in open spaces such as airports, heliports, helipads as well per subways, harbours, oil and industrial sector.
It is a common phenomenon that people tend to forget smalls things like Keys Mobile, Purse etc. when they travel or go to some other places carrying these things. We also keep losing these things whenever we are in a hurry.
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