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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.
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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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The Helixator technology has been developed in the last years to provide architects and city planners a new tool for designing cities. It is a highly flexible escalator system that allows construction of escalators in any given geometry, including strait, curved and helical escalators.
The idea to build such escalator systems is not new.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has created a revolution in U.S. health deployment. In
addition to facilitating affordable health insurance for all citizens, the government aims
are to have universal digitalization of health records, have them easily and safely
accessed, and to encourage their use.
PHR-Rescue provides an identity theft-proof, transportable method for creating and
My idea is to create a sun-driven motor using Nitinol (nickel-titanium) memory metal. The concept is to orient memory metal bars around the inside of a ring similar to spokes in a bicycle wheel, but pulling all in the same direction. Each “spoke” would be connected to a ratchet assembly tangentially,
The InSpec Snapshot Surface Gauge is a compact, vibration-immune 3D surface measurement system with micrometer-level vertical and lateral resolution for measurement of precision machined components. By allowing rapid, accurate, in situ quantification of critical features and defects, millions of dollars can be saved through elimination of erroneous part rejection or mistaken acceptance of failing components. 
Problem Statement
Thrust developed by engines of an aircraft is used to propel it in a forward direction. Its size or wing size that produces the required lift force to fulfill the need to hover a plane against the force of gravity is proportional to payload or overall weight.
The hybrid starter battery (e.g. CAPstart) is designed to replace a conventional lead acid starter battery.
Probably almost every car owner has faced the unpleasant situation where the battery has died after the car has been unused for a longer period. This is especially familiar to motorcycle or hobby/classic car owner in the beginning of the season.
The TULMan Electronic Counter is a universal product designed to effectively manage small pneumatic tools and devices.
TULMan stands for Tool Usage and Life Management and the electronic counter allows users to monitor tool usage, and implement preventative maintenance.
When i started putting pencil on paper, i really didn't think too much about the fact that it is a very unique vehicle that is powered by electricity. My major focus was on the environmental issue. The global economy is in crisis – a crisis which is already putting car sales in jeopardy. Therefore,
This system is based on the idea that when the driver doesn't respond any more to the steering wheel and there is no any sense that the driver is awake due to a medical issue or tired issue then this system will be activated at the same time the heart beats with pressure will be sensed also then the
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