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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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Developed to prevent crashes, injures, fatalities and economic losses associated with unsecured loads. According to NHTSA 51,000 crashes with 10,000 injuries and 440 known fatalities happen in 2010. Currently GOA is collecting data on the problem unsecured loads have on traffic accidents, injuries, fatalities and economic impact that effects everyone on the road and taxpayers.
Educational CNC machine tools nowadays, it is important to reduce costs This also applies to education and specialized education, courses for CNC machine operators.
Project Objective: Reducing the cost of equipment for CNC training centers, increasing the number of training centers for CNC machine operators, facilitating access to such training,
A thermochromic fiber has been developed that can be woven into clothing by an Australian research and development company and it's available for immediate production. The fiber composition can be fine-tuned to cover a narrow band of temperature variations which translates the minute temperature differences of anything it touches such as skin.
When implementing security on datacenter hosts, cpu bandwidth decreases and power consumption increases. The e-Science community performs large amounts of mass-data transfer often using Globus GridFTP, a de facto standard. Wire-rate mechanisms for GridFTP with speed-up through compression and securing through encryption previously did not exist in architecture or actual systems.
This concept is an improvement of the existing 3-Dimmensional Spatial Projector based in 3 dimensional space rasterizing. Particularly this one was inspired by the Stars War movie and is used to project objects in 3 dimensions in a real space.
The idea visualizes the solutions for the futuristic green buildings. The implementation of techno-green management and architecture in construction will lead to sustainable green homes. In India, buildings account for 30-40 percent of energy use, known to be energy guzzlers. The current conventional residential structures pose impending threat to our mother nature.
THE PUSHER
A battery powered PUSHER to turn your conventional automobile into a HYBRID automobile
Paul Dieges
The market already has many fine hybrid and all electric automobiles for sale, but the price for the average person, who already has an adequate conventional automobile to travel in, is more than most can afford.
GateKeeper is a Multipurpose Bluetooth Smart proximity tag that can Auto Lock and Unlock your computer, and keep track of valuables.
Many features, 1 device, and useful to everyone. A versatile Bluetooth 4.0 proximity tracker that performs item loss prevention, item locating, auto locks and unlocks your Mac or PC.
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The current traffic regulation uses only time as a criterion. It is not on par with the current technological developments which are being implemented in all the fields by the government. The current developments on technologies which use speed breakers for mechanical energy to electrical energy conversion have also been considered and a better development is proposed.
The MACAS-UAS will use the installed electro-optical and infrared sensor units, common devices installed to today’s military-security UAV/UAS and future civilian UAV/UAS, that conduct or will conduct maritime operations.
During emergency conditions such as a loss of remote control signal-malfunction-damage of a critical system-no more fuel-ditching procedure,
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