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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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To counter climate change, the world is moving towards clean energy, but still, energy is generated through fossil fuel due to its need on a large scale. Therefore it is necessary to use our electricity in an efficient manner. Our product ‘Intellica’ tackles this issue by the phenomenon of load balancing in the distribution of power,
Falling is the leading cause of accidental death in the over 65 population, but unlike diabetes and heart disease, there is no early warning for it, until now. The Zibrio SmartScale is the first balance measurement device to bring cutting-edge science to the consumer market. It enables home users to measure and track their balance with a simple, 
A ventilator made from off the shelf industrial automation parts, recreating simple all-pneumatic (no electric power required) ventilators that have been in service continuously since the late 70's. This ventilator can be built from a kit with no special tools, and is easy to assemble.
Problem: Chaotic electrical activity of the heart (arrhythmia) has a tremendous impact on society’s well-being: Not only is it the number one cause of both sudden death and stroke, but it is also a leading contributor to congestive heart failure (CHF).
- Reversible operation of solid oxide cells will significantly increase market penetration capability of the solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) due to the production of hydrogen and electricity at different operating modes. It can potentially address the energy storage grand challenge by leveraging hydrogen as the energy carrier medium.
Medical facilities are becoming a source of potential infection during the epidemy, as, for example, in the case of COVID-19. It is unlikely that the epidemiological situation with COVID-19 will be changed essentially in the world in the nearest years. Consequently,
In March 2020, following the COVID-19 outbreak, the FDA defined a new policy to accelerate the availability of remote patient monitoring devices: “Modified use of remote patient monitoring devices may increase access to patient physiological data without the need for in-clinic visits…"
bio-T's vision is to have every medical device connected so remote patient care,
LEAPFROG® air cleaning system removes radon and contaminants from indoor air space, using centrifugal, electrostatic, and magnetic forces, instead of fibrous or mechanical filter media. Radon (per EPA, US CDC, and World Health Organization) is the number one cause of lung cancer among non-smokers. Studies link Radon to Alzheimer’s and many degenerative conditions.
Currently, physicians cannot assess respiratory function in COVID-19 patients remotely. COVID-19 infection deteriorates patients’ ability to breathe due to discomfort, fluid accumulation, and exhaustion. While most patients can safely recover at home, patients and physicians via telemedicine cannot decide whether hospital treatment is needed without a physical exam.
The Rotating Liner Engine is a design concept inspired by the WWII era Sleeve Valve Engines where the cylinder sleeve rotated and reciprocated in order to perform the valving on a 4 stroke engine (high BMEP aircraft engines).
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