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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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Hospitals are losing the fight against nosocomial infections that affect 1.4 million people per day, and killing 100,000 in the US annually. We aim to reduce Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) by 30%, saving patient lives and hospital treatment costs. Alcohol-based hand rubs are recognized as the most effective tool to prevent HAI,
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In large-scale disasters, the sanitizing and remediation of trauma sites is vital to public health. Recent death toll numbers show the need for mass casualty response gear to protect the public from biological hazards and terrorism.
Natural biological decomposition may expose people and animals to pathogenic bacteria. Failure to immediately remove or treat dangerous materials such as blood,
System uses a dry-wet sensing differential amplifier.
Amplifier already used as an optical differential amplifier:
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Desert coolers are widely used for cooling rooms in hot countries like India. Conventional coolers have a water tank at the bottom. Water is pumped to the top of the cooler which is allowed to fall on the three walls of the cooler body, the fourth wall having a fan.
Since the 1950’s the state-of-the-art for transport aircraft design has been the extendable ‘tube’ that transfers strength and rigidity through the external skin. This design includes a passenger compartment with its ‘overhead bins’ and a floor under which cargo and utility equipment ride.
The Problem: Common residential exterior light fixtures that allow light pollution, light trespass and energy waste. Replacement of such fixtures (especially multiple exterior fixtures) can be prohibitively expensive.
The Solution: A light bulb with louvers designed into the sealed bulb envelope to keep light directed below the horizontal plane to meet modern full cut-off light fixture standards.
This device would take advantage of the wasted air force generated from the outside air conditioner condensing unit.The proof of concept has already been proven with a prototype.The fan motor on my ac unit is 1/2 hp and blows enough wind to produce just over 8 volts from my unit.
Conversion of 950va Tiger petrol generator to a renewable energy-RE powered 950va rotary genset is an experimental setup aim at carryout feasibility studies on ways of providing an alternating current- ac electricity generation for about 20hours /day. The 950va RE rotary genset is a combination of motor/generator arrangement.
Ancillary loads in vehicles are necessary for passengers and to regulates vehicular operations. They are independent of vehicle speeds but show-up as a constant power usage to perform duties. For instance,
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