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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 people have jobs that require copious amounts of typing. Standard keyboards facilitate disorders such as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and repetitive stress injuries. The reoccurring motion involved in typing puts strain on the nerves and tendons in the hands, leaving many unable to do their jobs.
Space flight, satellite communication, and global navigation have become ubiquitous parts of our lives. The uses for space technology grow with each passing day, and there is a pressing need to continuously innovate the ways in which we access space. Typically orbit is reached using solid or liquid rocket motors; however, a combination of these two technologies,
Earthquake Safety
The Baumann Energy Dissipating Rebar Coupler™ (BauEDRC™) will be used to rapidly construct all types of earthquake resistant concrete structures such as school buildings, bridges, apartment and office buildings.
The BauEDRC™ could also be used to construct blast resistant structures.
Decorative light fixtures are sent out automatically by way of a track & cable assembly. The track mounts on the face of a building or the backside of a house facia. The decorative light fixtures are installed by way of hooking or plugging them in to the cable that is automatically sent out and when it is retracted in.
The DynaVac is a tool that I invented, developed, applied for a patent on, and marketed mainly to Broadcast Television & Radio stations worldwide to be used to clean electronics and electro-mechanical assemblies better and quicker than traditional methods. In its simplest terms, the DynaVac is basically a hand-held, custom-machined vacuum nozzle with a precision,
We are seeing a tremendous increase in efficiency of vehicles by using diesel and electricity in a hybrid configuration.
Perhaps this is time to combine the natural gas many have available at our home and which is a produce if the USA, for home power. (Not in a fuel cell the price is too high still.
Prof. Sailor first proposed one could use “smart dust” for the sensing of analytes several years ago. Smart dust is especially suitable for standoff detection which takes place at greater distances from people and assets to reduce the potential for severe damage. So far,
This invention deals with an electronically controllable Variable Valve Lift System for internal combustion engines.
This system is a mechanical transmission having the capability of varying the lift of the intake and/or exhaust poppet valves while the engine is running and when varying its working conditions. Said variations being continuous and within wide limits.
The mechanical transmission includes (see Fig.
Traditionally, shoes are purchased by the single pair and expected to be durable for a year or more. After the traditional shoe life cycle the shoes are thrown away with the rest of the landfill waste.
The reconcile concept changes the way we think about our casual footwear and it's environmental impact.
Presented system for regenerating automobile kinetic energy loss in deceleration uses a piston engine that as a compressor charges a reservoir and as an engine augments the main engine on acceleration. Effectiveness exceeds that of electric power absorption systems because energy and maximum power absorption are greater while the size, weight and cost are much lower. For example,
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