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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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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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“Is it possible to generate a patterned surface which is microbe friendly?”
The idea deals with production of easily degradable bio fertilizers using a patterned microbial surface. Fertilizers used in crop cultivation today are synthetic in nature. These synthetic fertilizers are harmful for ecosystem as they result in soil pollution and increase in synthetic chemical concentration of the soil.
The futuristic technology for the colonies on Mars.
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The Planet Mars has been an issue of scientific curiosity for centuries, not least because Mars is the only terrestrial planet whose surface can be directly observed in detail from the Earth. Although Mars is smaller at 11% of Earth's mass and 50% farther from the Sun than the Earth,
I would like to introduce to you my patented cost-effective innovation designed to resolve the automotive fuel economy problem. This problem has different approaches.
Today’s dominant approach is a very expensive combination of the multi-cylinder engine, electric battery and motor instead of standard powertrain (engine and automatic transmission - AT).
Simpler, Lighter & Better
Revolutionary CoolAnywhere 3 in 1 Laptop Sleeve, Lap Desk, and Cooling Stand combines 3 basic useful functions into one simple thin solution for growing mobile e-office, that not only protects your laptop, but also allows you to operate comfortably everywhere you go. It opens a door to redesign 3 separated products.
Although thousands of types of filters work functionally and efficiently, cleaning up filter housings and processing collected dust is a dirty and messy burden in all applications such as vacuum cleaner, dust collector, air cleaner, HVAC, air intake, waste water treatment etc. Dust exposure and dirt contacting are dangerousally for people suffering from allergy and asthma,
The objective of this project is to develop a safety technology that will give a warning signal before a collision, which will alert the driver and automatically apply brakes if the driver does not apply the brakes.
• Pre-collision warning system is a technology that prevents accidents.
The innovation and driving force for the wind turbine solar water pump is brought about by the needs for basic resources such as safe and drinkable water in third world countries as well as environments that make attainability hard if not almost impossible. The lack of electricity and an electrical grid.
This would improve the quality of life,
MANTARAYA Delta Challenger
Military & Rescue, missions.
MANTARAYA Delta Challenger is an only underwater propelling device, because the diver stays in the wake of that device without pointless efforts, reducing air consumption and turbulence.
THAT BI-TURBO SYSTEM improves the hydrodynamic coefficient of penetration [Ch = Rv= Cv.(Re.K/L)], saves energy, increases the velocity and the autonomy.
The present invention relates to a space launch vehicle used for launching spacecraft. Said vehicle uses a magnetic levitation system in order to reduce friction since the vehicle floats above rails, like a bullet train. The system uses magnetic coils to propel the vehicle and to move same away from the quiescent point thereof.
The invention relates to the use of the collision of matter and antimatter as a means of propulsion in a spacecraft, to the control system for said engine and to a block diagram of the connections for same, in which all of the functions are divided into modules.
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