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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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Historically, lobe pumps have not had wide spread industrial use because of the problems of pulsating flow, large size due to low rotor speed and low NPSH. A company in California is testing a new design that will change all that. The new design, called the OCOR Multiple Segment Lobe Pump, supplies continuous flow,
Nowadays, all portions of automotive industry are being developed while the road limitations are still the obstacle of this development. GPS is an adequate product to optimize the route and reduce the journey time.
Drone Swarm Defense System.
• What problem does your design idea solve?
Countering extremely high speed, potentially explosive projectiles that are trying to blow up very expensive ships.
• What are the potential benefits?
Functioning defense, relatively inexpensive compared to what it is protecting. Easy to replace, upgrade and revamp.
The Opposed Piston WAISSI ENGINE Provides Better Geometry and Inertia, Higher Maximum Piston Pressure, Lower Internal Friction than Any Comparably Sized Combustion Engine even the F-1 Engine
* The WAISSI ENGINE has the simplest possible opposed cylinder, opposed piston design. The design employs an integrated piston, driveshaft, crankdisk, and a bearing ring for each cylinder pair.
This innovative électrical roof opener is designed for slightly sloped roofing that is normally not habitable. By lifting the roof and reversing the slope, the prototype transform the roof into a beautiful terrace for outside living. You can have a large sight line and enjoy the sun or the stars from the top of your house.
A car or handheld radio with a solid state hard drive to allow DVR like functions for your radio such as pausing, rewinding, fast forwarding. It would also allow for searching for favorite artist, song etc...
The New Transportation Infrastructure (NTI) is a peek into the future. The NTI is a modern, clean and inexpensive transportation system consisting of multiple level runways, each level holding a single-channel railway carrying light-weight, single-rider mini-vehicles. Today, we all want to “go green.” We all want to conserve natural resources, improve public safety,
One of the primary frustrations of working as a pharmacist is the amount of time spent counting and sorting pills for patients and customers. This takes away precious time from the pharmacist that could be better spent on education about the drug and possible interactions with other drugs the patient or customers may be taking.
INTRODUCTION: In general, the mentally challenged people are either tied up with iron chains or hand-cuffed, which are a quite inhuman practice as well as unsafe process. To avoid such kind of harmful procedure, the Detention Chair is designed. Otherwise it is a normal chair, apart from the mechanism ,
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HealthViewer™ is a next-generation, interactive software that connects the doctor and patient. It’s a decision support tool (DST) used by providers to promote shared decision-making and by patients to understand the landscape of their diagnosis, the treatment options, and associated paths to maintaining and achieving better health.
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