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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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Every few years, it seems, we’re presented with the same empty promise: “Coming Soon! The Affordable Car that Flies like a Plane!” Though it’s true there have been prototypes in the air, and some companies may even be taking orders,
BioSculpture Technology, Inc. (“BST”) is a commercial stage medical device manufacturer developing a patented and prototyped minimally invasive device for the endoscopic removal of visceral or “belly” fat as a new treatment of obesity, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Nowadays, the “non-demountable” trend of IC engine diagnostics is becoming ever more widespread. One of the techniques used in such diagnostics is vibroacoustic monitoring. It is used in safety and ecology, but not in in car workshops.
Improvement of energy efficiency and ecological cleanliness of internal combustion engines with spark ignition is a task of vital importance and alternative fuels are one of the ways to solve it. Many researches and tests conducted by various institutes all over the world revealed advantages of different alternative fuels,
Podcars or PRT has been proposed as a very convenient and fast transit system. With its small vehicles that go point to point on demand it has great merit. The small vehicles place less weight on the guideway system which reduces the installation cost.
Designing of some trolley system for motorcycle relates to the field of Mechanical / Automobile Engineering. This PAA (Punctured Assistant Apparatus) relates to automotive ergonomics. This will be assisting the users of two wheeled automobiles when,
Diesel Powered Hammer - Slammer
This describes a hammer with two weighted portions (hammer head and reaction weight) that are separated by a diesel combustion chamber.
Innovation:
Individual hard plastic (e.g. polycarbonate) or metal slabs with two parallel holes into which a matching size of mono filament line is inserted. The devices are sold in a stack with a spool of line inserted through one hole of the stack.
A short burst electrical energy harvesting generator in one embodiment including a reciprocating magnet, under the magnetic influence of dual repelling magnets, whose travel path oscillates within a centered through hole coil bobbin thereby producing an induced voltage at the coil terminals.
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