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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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We introduce RECO GLASS to homes, shopping malls, offices, airports & more. This smart air purifier or air conditioner tracks the air quality via an app, that can be used remotely. The data we gather allows us to optimize replacement services for our circular economy business model.
Researchers, engineers, students, and post-doctoral researchers involved in cryogenic experiments are well aware of the substantial time investment required to construct a system before gathering initial data. When starting a new experiment, it may take several years or, at the very least, several months to customize an existing setup to meet specific requirements.
Undoubtedly,
This project aims to improve the global environmental situation by using renewable energy sources to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The "Green Spiral" technology efficiently converts fresh KPC manure through anaerobic fermentation, producing high quantities of effective Fermented Organic Biofertilizers and Biomethane rich in microorganisms. These Biofertilizers enhance soil mineral composition and balance,
The buoyancy-assisted desalination system uses a hollow sphere which can be easily deployed by a ship. The sphere houses the reverse osmosis system required to turn seawater into potable water. The sphere is positively buoyant. The sphere has a large enough empty cavity that, even with the internal filters and collector tank full,
Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni was a German physicist and musician. His most important work, for which he is sometimes labeled as the father of acoustics, included research on vibrating plates. Modal analysis is used to find out mode shapes and natural frequencies of system. This work aims at demonstrating nodes and antinodes at various frequencies of vibrations.
Although modern medical treatment can cure patients with head and neck cancer, the muscle fibrosis caused by the treatments can lead to a progressive inability to open their mouths, forming trismus. Jaw-opening exercises have been proven to effectively optimize the condition. However,
This proposal is about rethinking how we transport people and goods in the future.
The idea, herein called RailCat, is a modular rail-based system that allows a non-stop smooth transportation flow between any departure and destination locations within the system.
The RailCat concept is an alternative to the historic race for faster transport between centralized hubs.
ViBo Health is tackling the challenge of accurately tracking health conditions, wellness, fitness, nutrition, and recovery. Our first use case is pre-diabetes risk identification (“early warning”) and tracking. Our approach can be highly valuable for payers, including insurers and employee wellness programs. As a B2B2C, our customers are the host locations (pharmacies, gyms, etc.) and the payers (Insurers,
Life is really hard for the visually impaired or blind individuals, to the extent that they are unable to see what's happening around them, including reading books or understanding Morse code. However, there are solutions available to address this situation and potentially help them regain some level of vision. One such solution is Vision,
The issue of climate change and the European initiative "Fit for 55" are focusing on the goals of efficiency and decarbonization in the future of mobility. This has sparked a significant interest in hydrogen as an energy carrier due to its ability to generate energy with low pollutant emissions.
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