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Special Report spotlights the eight amazing winners in 2024 as well as honorable mentions in each category, plus the top ten most popular entries as voted by our community.
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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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I was a child of the 1950's and hula hoops were used by the young and old. After breaking several, we strung them together to make a huge hula hoop. That was boring, so we tried something new. We strung a bunch of different colored hoops together to make a spiral.
Lead-halide perovskites are highly sought-after semiconducting materials that can harvest sunlight and convert it into renewable electricity. Their low cost and high efficiency make them ideal for optoelectronic applications like solar cells and LEDs. They are, however, extremely sensitive to light, heat, air, and water—even airborne moisture would kill the current devices in minutes,
Increasing pest and disease pressures urge specialty crop farmers to spray orchards more frequently than ever before to grow marketable products. In the order from primitive to sophisticated, current technologies in industry allow orchard farmers to spray trees in three different ways: conventional air-blast sprayers which are the most common,
New line of washers for Laundromats and On Premises laundry.
I have designed a new line of washers that has more features than any other laundry machines in the market.
This line of washers is raising the standard of washing machines design for sustainability. Unique engineering methods and software programs are used to develop an ergonomic,
The innovation introduces a Hybrid Transmission System (the System).
Unlike other mild hybrid configurations, which only enable the administration of TORQUE available from the hybrid set (e.g., internal combustion engine (ICE) and electric machine (EM)), this new mechanism allows TORQUE and RPM to be managed, locating the performance of the hybrid set in it’s optimum. In so doing,
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Whenever a plane touches the ground, rubber is pulverized from the tires until they adhere to the ground.
Small electric motors may be used to rotate the wheels such that their peripheral speed matches the plane speed at landing to avoid them sliding at initial touch. This avoids the tires wear and extends their number of landings.
This innovation relates to the field of opposed piston internal combustion engines (OP-ICE) having two pistons in one cylinder configured to have facing heads. Specifically, this engine (hereinafter “the Engine”) architecture shows the following features relative to a comparable design:
Compact size: The new architecture solves a size issue.
Traditional instrument clusters pose problems when used while operating vehicles and industrial equipment. Why? They are difficult to read quickly. That delays operator responses, both to information in the instrument cluster and to the environment around the operator. Delays can lead to accidents causing property damage, personal injuries, and deaths.
Since the creation of the automobile in 1886, automobiles have been moving towards autonomous operation to increase convenience and safety. It began with the automatic transmission, then the invention of automatic windows, and many more innovations. Today, every major OEM is innovating the next generation of automation, equipped with dozens of autonomous features.
Yet,
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