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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.
Read About All the 2024 Winning Inventions
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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A CAWT (Figures 1 & 2) incorporates an innovative wind turbine rotor with a maximum power coefficient (Cp) of 0.88. This value is based on 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) studies confirmed by an independent CFD-simulation services company. This exceptional aerodynamic performance is achieved by using closely-spaced, steeply-pitched blades to form a column of rectangular,
Ton Ton is a product that uses OLDE's near-red light to irradiate and stimulate the two acupoints, Bitong (EM7) and Yingxiang (LI-20), and works with the electric temperature to minimize the impact of swollen sinuses and nasal congestion on the quality of life of children with allergic rhinitis.
Ton Ton is designed to be bendable for comfort,
We are solving the plastic waste problem from the inside out! If you haven’t noticed, there are literally mountains of plastic waste building up in landfills, a Texas sized island of it in the ocean, and microplastics are being found everywhere. Approximately 8.3B metric tons of plastic have been produced, 6.3B metric tons have become waste.
The "Smart Plow" is the Snow Plow robotic Machine that attaches to the standard front mounting plate of the Cities' / Municipalities' Trucks.
It operates in the way that removes the snow from the street and deposits it selectively to the side of the street.
The snow will not be deposited at the entrance of any driveway,
Seevoice: A comprehensive solution for all your hearing and alerting needs!
We understand that not everyone with hearing loss can benefit from a hearing aid.
Moderate and Severe hearing loss caused due to damage in the auditory nerve or inner ear section, make hearing aids have little effect on the individual.
Designed is an AI Powered Mobile Jamming Drone that can trace down mobile signals, create a swarm and localize mobile jamming so that it does not affect others. Like in a condition where hostages have been held in a building, the drone can travel into the building so as to break down any kind of communication by the enemies.
Two concepts invented for delivering cargo to the lunar surface: OPLONAS (Oversized Payload Lander On Non-Atmospheric Somata) and MACEDONAS (Momentum Absorption Catcher for Express Delivery on Non-Atmospheric Somata). The second can derive from the first by scavenging the flexible elements of OPLONAS, the radial high tensile ropes and the perimetrical wires.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that we need to have a more accessible and democratic health system around the world. The inequality problem is even more evident in developing countries, where some urban centers have more than enough medical resources while most countryside doesn't even have laboratory analysis facilities,
Measuring big things is always a challenge. To measure mountain size objects, the golden technique today is using drone topographic scan or ground topographic surveys. These are nice and precise techniques, but they have a few limitations: usually need human intervention,
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