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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.
Click here to read moreA ‘Create the Future’ Winner Featured on ‘Here’s an Idea’
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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Potholes and bumps in the road won’t matter anymore. You can replace your car, boat, snowmobile, and troop-carrier with a single vehicle. Though the long dreamed-of flying car has eluded us for decades, by modifying our vision of a flying car, we can make it a reality.
Consider a plane coming in for a landing.
Background: According to the CDC, blindness is “a severe vision impairment, not correctable by standard glasses, contact lenses, medicine, or surgery.” 285 million people are estimated to be visually impaired worldwide: 39 million are blind and 246 have severe low vision.
About 90% of the World's visually impaired live in low‐income regions of the World. In the US,
The design consists of a completely functional Charging Station for electric bikes and cars. In this design the inspiration is taken from the shape HEXAGON which has six sides. The six sides have been utilized to provide a charging tray for multiple batteries at once.
The purpose of the work is the development of technical documentation and the implementation of a model of a vessel with a reduced waterline area and solar power plant, designed to study methods for controlling an autonomous vessel of this type.
Development of this cold fusion power system focuses on a novel solution to the U.S. and world demand for new, lower cost, renewable, long-term, and economically practical sources of energy. Concerns about increasing pollution and its impacts on our planet and civilization must also be addressed by technology that is clean.
Ring is an adjustable, custom-made prosthetic leg for transtibial amputee children in developing countries.
The conceptual 'Ring' prosthetic leg as a piece of medical equipment that will enable children in developing nations to be supported if they have lost a limb.
FIGURE 1 illustrates how co-generation is added to Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) vehicle 1 before ICE intake manifold 3 at air path co-generator 2 and exhaust port 6 at exhaust gas path co-generator 7 through ICE vehicle 1 for charging batteries (capacitors or decomposed gasses) 9 required in electric vehicle (e.g.
A computer program using Quantum Mechanics to mitigate Breast Cancer
by Lou Massa Hunter College, CUNY.
Overarching Challenge: How does one identify SERM (i.e. estrogen-like) molecules based upon quantum fundamentals? A pharmacophore is that set of properties, carried within a molecular framework, responsible for a drug’s biological activity. We introduce something entirely new, in the search for pharmacophores, viz.,
The world has a plastic problem. Humans are responsible for 32 million tons of plastic litter per year that is disposed of incorrectly and ends up directly on the ground and in waterways. That’s the weight of the entire population of Botswana, as plastic trash, tossed on the ground yearly.
90% of that littering occurs in developing countries,
Heart failure is global pandemic with nearly 30 million sufferers worldwide causing not only significant mortality but also diminished quality of live and a huge cost burden to individual and healthcare systems.
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