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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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With recreational camping becoming more and more extreme, so are the risks. As campers extend their treks into unexplored terrain, a wide variety of things can effect the safety of their trip. With the Survival Solar Cooker campers no longer need to fear not having safe drinking water and properly prepared food.
The Live Information Bus Stop (LIBS) keeps people up-to-date on the location of their bus. By using location tracking (GPS), any bus system could signal all equipped bus stops with the current position of buses that frequent any given stop. Since they use little energy,
Aivaka has created the Thermo-Charge System. This is an energy harvesting system that creates electric power from the difference between human body temperature and outside air. This can be used as a backup power source to charge the batteries in consumer electronic devices such as cell phones and MP3 players.
Too often, people get lost while skiing, hiking,
The Baumann Strain Gage Grid™ (BauSGG™) will be used to continuously monitor the safety of reinforced concrete bridge structures.
In the recent past, concrete bridges in the U.S. and elsewhere have collapsed causing deaths and great financial loss and interruption of transportation systems.
The BauSGG™ is a proprietary design modification of the patented BauGrid® Welded Reinforcement Grid™ (BauGrid® WRG™).
The Baumann Green Floor™ (BauGF™)
The proprietary Baumann Green Floor™ (BauGF™) is designed to take advantage of what is called the “thermal flywheel effect of concrete.”
Concrete has the ability to efficiently store thermal energy, and then later, efficiently release this energy.
Air stream a wide, fast stream laminar flow turbulent-exit machine.
The air at the front of the device it ionized by electrodes that extend into the airflow area to begin the flow. Progressing rearward charged plates each progressively growing stronger at each step cause the air to accelerate towards the plates at 3 to 5 miles per hour.
The energy supply of today is based on the use of fossil fuels despite their large environmental impact and the stocks of fossil fuels are diminishing. There is a critical need for developing the renewable energy technologies and the global market of solar cells is growing at approximately 50% per year.
Robotic surgery is showing many disruptive advantages for several surgical procedures and is marking the steps for the future of minimally invasive surgery, especially in laparoscopy (e.g. the daVinci system from Intuitive Surgical).
These robots use cable-driven mechanism to actuate long straight tools having a wrist with 3 degrees of freedom (DOFs,
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The new concept is protective film or wrap that can be treated with deterrent chemicals to limit or eliminate destructive pet behavior. The new invention protects the surfaces in two ways. The first is to provide a physical barrier between the pet and surface. The second involves a deterrent coating,
High Plains Technology Group was formed to develop new equipment for orthopedic medicine. We polled a number of orthopedic surgeons and asked them to pose their most difficult problem. The vast majority described problems with surgical fasteners. The difficulty of either inserting or removing fasteners easily led to additional procedure time, increased risk of contamination and infection,
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