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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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The FreeWheel is a durable, light weight (5 lbs.) aluminum third-wheel that quickly and easily clamps to the footrest of a rigid-frame manual wheelchair. It instantly turns a wheelchair into an all-terrain chair. By lifting up the front casters the FreeWheel easily navigates rough terrain, from uneven sidewalks and curbs to grass,
The Dumbwaiter Refrigerator is the modern update to an old design.
In keeping with energy savings, safety and disaster proofing, recent events in Japan and other cities demonstrate the impracticality of the old refrigerator designs!
Conversely, the Dumbwaiter Refrigerator offers the following enhanced qualities:
1. Security, access limited to items you select.
When sound and muzzle flash are not an option. This invention helps to keep our soldiers at war safer.
With the Vacuum/Suppressor in place, the pressurized gas behind the bullet has a vacuum chamber space to expand into, so the pressure of the gas that exits the tip of the suppressor is reduced significantly; therefore,
Ever experienced a long wait at an airport, train station or hospital or other similar situation?
As recent events in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Japan have shown us, being able to communicate with the outside world is incredibly vital. the Flexible INternet Globally Enabled Router (or F.I.N.G.E.R.) seeks to address this by providing a compact unit designed to connect to the internet using any means currently available. It contains a variety of antennas,
So far, it has been impossible to get emissions of gasoline/diesel engines down do 0%. With the Fully Internal Combustion System though, it can do just that. But first, an introduction to conventional superchargers that are used in high performance cars: A supercharger is used when an engine needs more power.
The invention principle of work is based on the quantum mechanics phenomena - electron tunneling through potential barriers. The process is well mathematically modeled by the Fowler-Nordheim formula. It is used for storing of the information in the EEPROM cells, where special FET transistors called FGMOS (Floating-Gate-Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) serve this purpose.
The primary function is to orientate a solar collector to face the Sun [to be proshelios], with AZIMUTHIAL tracking of 270 Deg and ALTITUDINAL 90 Deg .The concept is based on the idea of combining a signal indicating the direction of the sun rays, within one solid angle of “quarter hemisphere”, with a signal indicating, similarly quarterly,
Turn signal related issues are included in virtually all lists of driver’s pet peeves. Although every car and truck is built with turn signals and every driver is obliged by law to use them, many drivers neglect to use them. Also,
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We present a conceptual design, associated components, and method of assembling a paradigm shifting implantable artificial kidney system. This relatively simple device allows continuous, silent, and autonomous separation and removal of selected contaminants in a patient’s blood without using traditional filters and without application of external hydrostatic pressures. It has no moving mechanical parts, requires little power,
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