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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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Invent the future NEO light
A MUON ENHANCED LIGHTING DEVICE
Today’s lighting technology is almost 100 years old depending on continuous energizing of lighting element. Quantum electro dynamic energy is proven to increase efficiency of tungsten incandescent lamps 96%. Multi factor analysis proves RMS electrical energy can be repurposed in one region (134 deg. - 0 deg.
Creative Caring is an exchange platform to match medical researchers needs for underfunded and orphan diseases with companies and organizations with untapped resources to achieve key breakthroughs and medical moonshots.
Creative Caring serves as an intermediary organization that connects medical researchers to the equipment, technology and talent they need to progress in underfunded disease research initiatives.
Problem statement
A study published in the journal Biological Conservation found that U.S. turbines kill 234,000 birds per year on average, while a newer study, published in Energy Science, found that about 150,000 birds are affected by wind turbines in the U.S. per year.
High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) Systems
Our design idea solves the problems of cheating in High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) carpool lanes. HOV is a traffic management strategy experiencing a large, planned expansion. HOVs are used globally to reduce traffic congestion and promote public transportation use for encouraging ride-sharing. Other benefits include conserving fuel, lessen emission of air pollutants,
Every year countless bush fires destroy homes, personal belongings, memories, and personal effects. Bush fires are now happening all over the world and the devastation is heart breaking. So, how can we look after our property and protect our memories, our children, our lives?
Being an inventor of an inflatable system that acts as a tubeless mortar,
Recent studies have shown that bumblebee wings create small tornadoes through the so-called - hamuli. These are hook-shaped processes on the edges of the wings.
Thus, a kind of turbulent air cushion is created under the wings. Small whirlwinds have a greater density - hence the mass of air thrown by the wings is greater.
Energy production, bio-oil and electricity, from biomass out of sustainable forest. Fossil fuels substitution by bio-oil refining to bio-diesel.
This project SF2E is aligned with the Global Decarbonization Commitment by Biomass Pyrolysis, promoting:
Sustainable Forest Management;
Forest Fires Mitigation;
Green Electricity Production;
The economic impact of having to abandon reciprocal engines and purchase new electric vehicles will generally have an economic impact in all sectors; for disadvantaged communities and some industries, the impact could be devastating. We propose a zero-carbon alternative. Our goal is to create a retrofittable system that enables existing vehicles to operate on stored thermal energy,
Every athlete knows there is a risk of getting hurt. The challenge is how to lower that risk. Athletes and their parents, teammates, coaches, and trainers focus on better training, pre-competition preparation, and making fewer mistakes. While these strategies are helpful, the fact is that injury statistics are essentially unchanged in the past 50 years.
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