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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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When the COVID-19 pandemic began, members of all industries had to start working from home - for some, the lack of a commute and flexible hours felt like a great improvement; for others, the zoom fatigue and isolation made it difficult to focus. Regardless of the experience, it’s clear that remote work is here to stay, 
This is the idea: a new concept of the suspension system in commercial vehicles, to eliminate basic components and have major control.
Objective: Develop the new suspension system in commercial vehicles.
Plan:
Improve the current system
Taking the Maglev design as a preamble, now it is to introduce it to the suspension system eliminating components such as shock absorbers,
The heavy duty trucks generate a turbulent flow around the truck and trailer periphery but the turbulent flow or high air pressure areas are more considerable at the rear of the trailer or the box or the container.
Background: Swimming pool drownings are one of the most feared threats to our children. Globally, the highest drowning rates are among children 1–4 years, followed by children 5–9 years of age. Eighty-seven percent of drowning fatalities happen in home pools and spas for children under five. Regardless of the statistics, pool drownings are a threat to all ages.
I want to reduce airplane loss of control accidents. While most general aviation accidents have lessened in recent decades, loss of control has not improved. Some accidents happen because the flyer's imagination does not match reality. Since the air is invisible, our imaginations could be wrong. I have seen the air made visible by sparse, oversize and buoyant snowflakes.
Whatever the reason for departing one's immediate environment for an area less frequented, as a vacation or escape from unfortunate events, a truly standalone habitat is most desirable. Welcome the MOG solar boat (Marine Off Grid)tm.
Autonomous is a word that describes the Totally Electric Powered Solar (TEPS)tm MOG boat.
Acoustic Guitar Amplification is a very big industry right now. Many country singers, as-well-as Rock Star Electric Guitarists are coming back to the acoustic--for that pure and natural acoustic guitar sound. But the quest for that 'Pure Sound' has hit a wall--they can't find it-- the sound they are looking for,
Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) is widely used in areal hygiene as in hospitals, schools and other indoor spaces. Also, sanitizing several equipments with H2O2 vapor brings cost efficiency compared to UltraViolet-C (UVC) lamp or LED systems.
We produced a hydrophobic non-woven carbon fiber fabric, decorated with graphene quantum dots.
PROBLEM: Current instruments for sorting cells are time-consuming, expensive, bulky, and most cells are recovered dead. The similarity of tumor cell clusters combined with the inability to separate live cells makes oncology a difficult area of research.
SOLUTION: Cyto R1 sorts and recovers live cells in less than 20 minutes, is 10X less expensive than flow cytometer counterparts,
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Hydropower is one of the most important renewable resources for energy. There are, however, drawbacks. Firstly, there is an ethical problem. Fish are hindered to migrate upstream and are stressed, wounded or killed migrating downstream. All over the world plans are made to mitigate this, e.g. in Europe via The Water Framework Directive .
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