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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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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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Thorough studies over more than 50 years on a large number of materials have evidenced their composite structure. In particular, water and aqueous solutions contain a specific inductive element able to exchange energy with Human Mental Field (HMF) and Bio-fields (BF) generated by flora and fauna.
I have invented an electrical air conditioner which is light in weight and features high speed cooling and the lowest maintenance cost at all time. The cooling in this project is produced by thermoelectrical couple.
The thermoelectrical couple produces peltier effect and the temperature of the device gets cooled down.
Space debris is a dangerous threat to future space exploration. The project “ShotSat” proposed a possible solution to the problem of space debris using this satellite. The device got its name because the satellite launches “shots” into space debris. ShotSat is a format of ultra-small artificial Earth satellites for combating space debris. It has a low launch cost,
Energy is mostly derived from fossil fuels and renewable resources are neglected. Combustion of material is a very common system of releasing energy.
The reciprocal (piston) engine has taken over the world of transportation and mobile machines but this design has been developed for the combustion of liquid fuels.
A designed product that uses readily available waste (plastic and biomass) and converts them to useful biofuels thus reducing environmental pollution, global warming and climate disorder. The product is called a SMART BIOPYR SYSTEM in which the entire operation is controlled using an IoT (Internet Of Things) device that also monitors device performance,
The Take Cover explores the vulnerability of humans and the built environment and their need to withstand the impacts of natural disasters due to climate change. The purpose of our patented invention is to provide body conforming flotation padding protection to be used during disasters such as hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, earthquakes, and flooding.
My idea aims to add greater safety factor to automotive vehicles by addressing the human side of the driving using the below approach:
Detect unruly or impulsive behavior through measurable responses such as constant abnormal acceleration/braking, rapid steering movements, continual over-speeding beyond a set safe speed, etc.
CHEMICAL BONDING ADHESIVE FOR BULK TRANSFER PIPE JOINT
Chemical Bonding system using adhesives to butt join two pipe ends providing an effective permanent long lasting leak-tight and strong joint. Correct designed Chemical joints are as strong as the pipe itself.
Create a robot / set of robots in order to do the human being's handwork (eg. grinding, finishing) based on the customer requirements. The advantages would be the higher level of precision, minimization of damage for the aerospace parts as the handjob workmanship (human factors),
The entry works by maximizing the efficiency of the already existant technology. What makes it novel is the ease of use and implementation as well as the cost efficiency of overall functionality. It would be produced with the same technology in use for the build it components. It would be applied to any situation already using rover technology.
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