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Since Tech Briefs magazine launched the Create the Future Design contest in 2002 to recognize and reward engineering innovation, over 15,000 design ideas have been submitted by engineers, students, and entrepreneurs in more than 100 countries. Join the innovators who dared to dream big by entering your ideas today.
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I am working on an Energy Harvesting Uninterruptable Power Supply (eHUPS) to increase capabilities for advanced test facilities. This innovation incorporates renewable energy technologies to dramatically enhance UPS system applications over a wide range of market sectors.
Increased capabilities:
UPS systems are widely used for critical equipment resilience.
The community welcomes their SULO Bins almost everywhere worldwide. These bins are seen as a very appreciated service and hold great credibility for what tasks they perform. Such SULO Bins are therefore the ideal community service to add a lid with greenhouse gas capture benefits to reduce the methane, carbon dioide and nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere.
UNIMO offers a new level of individual mobility for people with disabilities.
The car complies with the M1 category, so it can be used on public roads.
The platform of the car is made with the possibility of interchangeable installation of an internal combustion engine and an electric motor with a battery.
The effects of global warming are palpable. Heat and cold waves are now more frequent and more extreme. Naturally, we want to feel comfortable and would instinctively rely on air conditioners and radiators to warm up or cool down the spaces we are in. Unfortunately, using them contribute to global warming and force us deeper into a vicious cycle.
The primary goal of this concept is to provide an efficient means to capture energy that is produced offshore during off peak times for later use. It would employ a wind or solar powered compressor to condense a refrigerant at high pressures, thereby retaining its energy in the forms of both latent and specific heat pulled from the ocean.
Thesis
We have developed a working method to immediately detect and locate nearby, unknown personal trackers using only a combination of simply RF demodulation and a custom algorithm.
Problem
Personal trackers such as Apple’s AirTag®, Samsung’s Galaxy SmartTag®, Tile Tracker® and others are being used to stalk people, track vehicles and trace packages for illegal purposes.
The "RoboGuts™ S.T.E.A.M. Education Program" is a perfect system for a home hobby side business. The hobbyist provides a "Maker Space" I like to call a "L'Robotoriuim Shop" in their garage or home with small desktop machines like 3D printers and old PCs to teach the "SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY" manufacturing process from "ENGINEERING &
Water enters the combustion chamber and separates into hydrogen and oxygen and explosion occurs.
No friction. No lubrication system.
Fuel -- Water, Steam, compressed air, alcohol, biofuel, hydrogen, natural gas, gasoline,
The Idea I am submitting is a very crude but a starting Idea for a manned space vehicle.
This vehicle is a single man unit that can be used instead of the space suit. It will use gyro scopes for attitude adjustment, role, pitch and yaw.
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