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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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This project is a revolutionary non-polluting environmental process, using proprietary technology, chemicals and mechanical devices, which efficiently separates and transforms used nylon carpeting into its original individual components for reuse, namely; nylon, polypropylene, and rubber adhesive. In the United States alone, over five billion pounds of new nylon carpeting is produced annually to replace old nylon carpeting.
Recoil saw
Using a hand saw requires repeated push and pull strokes. Normally this involves either: limiting the force of each stroke, or making a separate effort to stop each stroke.
The recoil devices are simply an impact bar, attached to 1 or more springs, attached to the hand saw.
When using the recoil saw,
This idea will eliminate millions of power cords, product cases, remotes, duplicated circuits and save much energy. It will save consumers and manufactures much money. It is a win win situation and can be made in America. It will work in all countries.
Following is a physical description of the Green Smart Entertainment System,
This entry seeks to find a way to broaden our consciousness of our electrical consumption through visual cues and information modeling. The primary issue we would like to “illuminate” is Phantom Power Loads from electronic devices and appliances. Most electronic devices continue to draw a small amount of power when they are switched off.
The Zero Pollution Aircraft Engine© (ZPAE©) from Massive Nibble© will be the world’s first solar-powered engine targeting both the private and commercial aircraft markets. The ZPAE© is a new, much more efficient Stirling heat engine configuration that can be rapidly and precisely throttled. It can make power with any heat. Solar, renewable fuels, bio-diesel, etc.
The Massive Nibble© Zero Pollution Engine™ (ZPE©) will take solar power to a whole new level. It’s a new, very simple, much more efficient Stirling heat engine design, that can be made with a power density exceeding that of internal combustion engines and can be rebuilt indefinitely.
Chameleons would look like ordinary white shoes. They would come in different styles, from Air Force 1-like shoes to high-top skater-like shoes, and even women friendly fashions. What separated them from other shoes it that under a thin layer of transparent plastic are the ends of thousands of fibers.
Ships have propellers which are designed to fling water relatively rearwards in an efficient manner. Tidal power is one area of ‘alternative energy’ which seems as if it has some chance for being cost effective.
My invention is therefore to combine this information and create a simple source of renewable energy.
Take ships which, due to economic conditions,
This invention is a new form of tyre which can be changed without removing any wheels and jacking up several tonnes of steel.
It is in the form of a number of separate rubber compartments, each with a metal foot bonded on. These feet are slotted axially into a hub, as show,
When big vehicles make sweeping turns, sometimes the process can be dangerous.
The diagram shows the area between the black and red curved lines which is swept out by an articulated lorry.
My invention is therefore to equip these vehicles with a number of roof-mounted spotlights which shine eg red light onto the ground.
These are directed,
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