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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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Century Fathom presents a novel method using Natural Gas Clathrate Hydrates (NGH) for producing natural gas from sub-sea petroleum reserves. Our patented process enables production of reserves which are deemed stranded either because they contain a high content (percentage) of impurities, specifically carbon dioxide and/or sulfur, or because production capacity (quantity) is too small to implement conventional methods,
The recent development of wearable electronics has drawn considerable attention from both academia and industry. Because wearable electronic devices can conform to and follow the deformation of the skin, they are capable of capturing various essential mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical, and biological signals, demonstrating an excellent potential for future healthcare monitoring applications.
To overcome the limitations and discomforts associated with the invasive and minimally-invasive devices used for blood glucose monitoring, we are proposing a compact low-cost wearable sensing system that utilizes microwave sensors and Artificial Intelligence to enable diabetics to non-invasively monitor their blood glucose levels without sampling any fluid outside of the body.
Modular Presence Indicators [MPIs] are portable devices comprised of three parts that work in tandem as presence detectors. The devices are based in whispering gallery mode excitation where tunable light sources, detectors, and optical cavities are used as highly sensitive components. The three parts include disposable test cartridges [DTCs], modular detection assemblies [MDAs], and universal electronic controllers [UECs].
The problem:
The health of all human beings has been seriously threatened with the appearance of Covid19 and so far have killed more than 516,570 people around the world.
Where is the Covid19?
Coronavirus can be everywhere out of our house, therefore we are a potencial victim of the pandemia each time we left our house.
WHAT IS IT?
LIFT-VECTORING is a comprehensive system that utilizes thrust, to move an aircraft, to create lift, and act as a complete flight control system without moving surfaces.
WHAT DOES IT DO?
The LIFT-VECTORING system utilizes a portion of the thrust generated by the propulsion system of an aircraft, applied directly to the aerodynamic surfaces,
Introducing VALUEGAUGE, the first information display to enable motor vehicle drivers to truly save fuel and emissions and time, and avoid waste. ValueGauge consists of a microcomputer and electronic display in view of the vehicle operator, and connects to the vehicle Engine Control Module (ECM) to obtain vehicle speed and fuel use data.
Figure 1 illustrates a vapor deposition bonding of hydrophilic OPEN ended carbon nanotubes measured to be only 20 to 150-nm (nanometer = 1-billionth of a meter) grown onto the surface of carbon fibers in FIGURE 3 with a carbon-carbon bond at a space of 20 to 100-microns,
ReFlo: Maintaining blood flow during a cardiac emergency.
During a cardiac event, the heart’s ability to pump around 30ml of blood maybe decreased or stopped.
There are many types of computer mice currently in the market, but very few adequately address the limitations of individuals with disabilities. Most accessible computer mice use a power wheelchair joystick, sip and puff devices, buttons and switches or a combination of the three to control the directional movement of a mouse.
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