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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 land cultivated for decades to centuries have already lost the natural fixated minerals & currently relied on fertilizers. The current methods of soil mixing, sprays are environmentally challenging due to volatilty, leeching effects of chemical compounds in fertilizers/pesticides causing 40% direct wastage which ends up in the atmosphere, lakes, residues. These stats are for California almonds alone,
THE PROBLEM: Patients undergoing surgery may experience an accidental endotracheal tube disconnection from the anesthesia/ventilator breathing circuit. This dangerous accidental disconnect is known clinically as “pop-off”. When a “pop-off” disconnection occurs, the patient may suffer serious, permanent injury or death due to inadequate sedation and oxygenation.
Introduction to Acoustic Catalyzed Green Hydrogen Production
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. Where there is water there is Hydrogen. Hydrogen is the fuel used by the Sun to product Solar energy by the process of Fusion. Reproducing this type of Fusion on the Earth is not so easy.
This new invention is to improve shock absorption, cushioning, spring and comfort for non-pnuematic tires and run-flat tires. The traditional approach has been “legs” or “fins” that are constructed perpendicular to the rotation of the tire. While these are reasonably effective, they may compress or deteriorate over time and use. Further,
Most of the world’s power is generated at centralized locations (power plants, wind or solar farms, etc.) and then must be transmitted over cables at high voltage (HV) to minimize electrical losses.
In the daytime mode, municipal solid waste is loaded through the receiving hopper (1) into the fermentation chamber of the landfill reactor (2) without pre-sorting. Every 2-3 hours, the mixing of the loaded municipal solid waste in the landfill reactor takes place with the help of a manually operated mechanical mixer (3). Then,
The robot arm on the ISS is controlled with two joysticks - one for translation and one for rotation. A helicopter pilot uses a joystick, collective lever, and foot pedals to control his aircraft. A hobby drone operator uses a remote control unit with two joysticks. Even the Space-X Dragon's 2D touchscreen essentially provides two joysticks.
OSIP is a modular test/measurement instrument that has full galvanic isolation, an embedded computer, a high power PSU within a 3U rack mount Eurorack chassis while being flexible and having room for improvements to be done by the end-user.
This invention has provided a cooler and electricity generator in one place. It is powered by wheel rotation, solar photovoltaic, motorcycle engine or grid electricity supply.
Overcharging devices such as laptops and cell phones are a wastage of electricity and contributes to battery damage. The invention comprises a clip which can affix to a power strip regulator and switch it off after a set time, e.g. an hour, so the devices would stop charging. The clip comprises a stopwatch which when the time is up,
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