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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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The GlidewayPRT envisions a national public automated electric guideway system designed to offer a different form of personal rapid transportation (PRT) to urban and suburban populations requiring local transit. This PRT public concept is a safer, faster, cheaper, and less intrusive method of transportation to and from suburbs or through urban congested areas with a minimum of time,
For decades windshields have played an important role in vehicles. With the bunch of usefulness windshield also bring some annoyance to the driver. The hot sunlight refracting from the windshield may blind the driver in certain circumstances. The high beam lights from the opposite vehicle is a nightmare for drivers in night.
Can you imagine bricks without any limit for create incredible structures?
I hope you can, and here is solution for that.
Idea is to provide something unique, something that will change limits of "brick-toys."
Before some time, I started to think about toys which will improve development of the child, actually development of thinking and imagination.
Bicycles are coming back into our lives. People in the cities realize the pain and suffering due to fuel wasted in the traffic, both on health and pocket. This situation has allowed bicycles to come bank in trend for covering short distances. This trend can easily be extended to medium to long distances if the bikes are more comfortable.
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Text independent speaker recognition using LabVIEW for security
Speaker recognition is the identification of the person who is speaking by characteristics of their voices (voice biometrics). Nowadays biometrics is being used extensively for the purpose of security. Voice is a most natural way of communication and non-intrusive as a biometric. Voice biometric has characteristic of acceptability, cost,
A cooling system in automobiles is used to remove excess heat produced in the internal combustion engines. In most automobiles the cooling system consists of the following components: radiator, water pump, cooling fan, pressure cap and thermostat. Of these components, the radiator is the most prominent part of the cooling system,
TITLE: ADVANCED SURFACE MODIFICATION MACHINE
BACKGROUND:
The development was done as a project to increase the efficiency and productivity of specimen treatment. In this project, a novel surface modification technique was introduced.
SansEC is a NASA-developed wireless sensor technology that is damage tolerant and requires no electrical connections. Unlike other sensors, a SansEC sensor can be designed for measurements unrelated to each other — like temperature and fluid level — and easily switch from one to another or do both simultaneously.
Abstract:
The person who is visually and physically impacted can use this device for his peaceful living. It actually works on the principle of binary coding with a microcontroller interface. It’s just like a glove. The binary code is assigned to a particular task and the code is decoded and it is fed to microcontroller.
Innovation
ProjectMQ is a dynamic social service that gamers will use to discover and share the newest media, news, and events related to their favorite indie games. ProjectMQ works on any device, so our users can enjoy our app anytime, anywhere. Our innovation combines the best features from popular media apps,
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