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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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This device allows the replacement of vacuum tubes with a solid-state device. The user still gets the "tube" sound that has had a resurgence in the last few years.
As a consequence of the replacement, energy used for lighting the filament is saved, and corresponding heat produced is eliminated.
The device is fairly robust,
Is it possible to build a high power, portable and inexpensive x-ray machine?
Imagine a soldier falls and needs to be evacuated via helicopter to a base camp, or perhaps a horse falls during a race and presumably has a broken leg, how could anyone diagnose the damage without radiography equipment?
Countries and places in the tropics have exceedingly hot and humid nights [1], especially during the summer months.
Trying to sleep in these conditions using only a fan is difficult and the problem gets worse if there is no power to run them.
Window AC units consume a lot of energy (5000 BTU, 4.8 amps, 515 Watts,
BlackStone Tablet PC
Can you imagine watching Avatar in 3D on your mobile Tablet PC this holiday season? Look for the Intel Blackstone Lightweight Tablet PC which will feature a Ultra-High Definition Three-Dimensional 10.1 inch retina display that will provide for the ultimate movie viewing experience on a mobile Tablet PC.
Lum-EN is the first portable device able to harvest solar energy and deliver electrical energy on-demand employing organic luminescent solar concentrators (OLSCs). Thanks to this technology, high light-to-electricity efficiencies can be attained with little use of conventional solar cells.
Have you ever been to the hospital to see a friend or family member and found them with tracheotomy, ventilator or unable to speak because of a heart attack?
To communicate becomes a problem, as the patients understands you, but you may not understand them. I they can use paper and pencil or tablet computer the problem goes away.
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The Rechargeable Therm-o-Electronic Battery
A device that looks just like but weighs less than a normal battery of its size, charges just like a battery but whose output is programmable within the dynamic range of the device.
Our Funscooter is intended for three kinds of purposes:
1. As a transport to move objects from point A to point B.
2. As a sport equipment.
3. As a toy for children and adults.
The Funscooter enables movement of people or goods from one place to another.
When power companies distribute electrical power to their customers, they are dealing with conflicting requirements:
On the one hand, it is desirable to maintain the highest line voltage that the distribution system itself can safely handle, due to the following facts.
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According to several recent studies, foot temperature measurement can be an important tool for diabetics. Foot inflammation can be readily monitored via temperature. As simple and effective as this solution sounds, in practice it has failed to see wide spread acceptance.
According to a recent study by Doctors Lawrence A. Lavery, DPM, MPH,
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