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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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Unmanned Air vehicle or uninhabited air vehicle (UAV) is essential equipment that is used in military warfare. However, owing to its large size, it is easily detected by the enemy causing it to be vulnerable to enemy counter attack. Micro Air Vehicle can be considered as a superior alternative to the UAV.
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THE FLIPPER IS A NEW INVENTION TO AN OLD PROBLEM.....PICKING UP THE TOILET SEAT.
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Most modern aircraft have made use of composites as major materials in their structures. Figure 1 shows that airbus A350 uses about 53% of composite materials in its construction.It is essential to predict the failure modes and characteristics of such materials. However,
I developed a residential elevator, different from that commonly used. It was developed with basic principles of mechanics, materials and cheaper using hydraulics and control to make it work. Some of the advantages of this elevator are:
Cheaper than those commonly used
Easy installation (no special construction needs,
Abstract and Advantages
The innovative aspect of this gun-engine (patent pending) combines the technology of a gun and a traditional engine.
The barrel of a gun augments the cylinder of a traditional engine. The piston of the engine blocks that barrel. An additional piston floating on an air cushion over the piston replaces the bullet.
Most vaccines need to be kept refrigerated between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius (PoweringHealth.org). Any temperatures outside that strict range are unacceptable. This is a problem in developing nations. Even if the regional hospital has refrigeration equipment, the vaccines still need to be distributed to individual villages.
The automatic thrust augmentation is the method of powering a high speed aircraft with the objective of minimizing the fuel consumption and making use of the atmospheric air in collecting the propellant.
Who says the sun can't shine at midnight? What if solar panels charged up a battery during the day, which then went on to power a street light at night?
The EIA reports that up to 12% of all electricity goes into lighting. Needless to say, it's a big part of our energy footprint.
Satellites Authorize a "Go" for Vertical Takeoffs:
An 'Automated' Air Traffic Control System Concept
The Next Generation Air Transportation System or NextGen is implementing or plans to implement a satellite-based air-traffic control system across the United States.
To The Next Generation Air Transportation System Planners:
The VTOL JetCar is coming!
To the worldwide aviation community,
The VTOL JetCar is a new personal jet-powered aircraft concept. It will perform a function that currently no other aircraft can accomplish. When incorporated as standard safety procedure, this new aircraft will execute: 'the first ever automated vertical-flight turning-into-the-wind maneuvers',
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