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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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Breakthrough Bio Fuel and Bio Chemical Production Process
Overview: Researchers at Montana State University – Northern have developed a low energy chemical cracking process which converts plant oils to advanced transportation fuels (drop in) and oleo-chemical precursors. This patented metathesis process can utilize a diverse source of feedstocks including non-food oil seeds.
Expensive, new functional materials such as organic semiconductors, semiconducting Quantum Dots (QDs), nanowires and graphene all require deposition of ultra-thin, precise coatings, often as monolayers … but cost effective application of such precise micro- and nano-coatings, to include self-assembly of 2D monolayers of nanoscale particles at high yields and Roll-to-Roll (R2R) rates (e.g.
This invention teaches that utilizing a rotating spherical or a rotating wheel permanent magnet means disposed in the centre of a coil-wire form disposed with focus magnets generates electrical power;
Ultra high efficiency LED light bubs and luminaires using a radically different patented method whereby a controlled constant current is generated from a zero voltage switched semi-resonant boost converter supplying a longer chain of small LED’s at very high power factor and virtually no EMI. The low current provides low losses.
One of the biggest Gas Industry in Abu Dhabi is conducting a pilot test of gas recovery and injection in the United Arb Emirates. The $90.7 million project must be completed within 34 months. A major challenge was the provision of a roadmap for implementation of MODULARIZATION of the construction process in synchronization with other project activities. To achieve this,
BabyDot™ is a simple label that changes color when breast milk spoilage is expected to occur.
Moms want to keep the food that they give their babies safe. Breast milk only lasts for about 6 days in the regrigerator and only 6 hours at room temperature. Before BabyDot™, in order to figure out how old stored breast milk was,
The lightning-laser magnetically-pinched nuclear-fusion power generator emits an air ionizing laser beam such as an ultraviolet laser beam towards the sky. This air ionizing beam produces an ionized conductive column(s) of air which conducts an artificial lightning, high voltage, high alternating frequency electrical current produced by a first tesla coil into the sky, clouds,
I would like to submit a 3D CAD rendering of a micro fusion power board for use in space vehichles that can travel beyond light speed.
The Aitech low power, Remote I/O Controller, Next Generation (RIO-NG) is Aitech’s latest invention in extensible low power, SWaP, Remote Input Output digital platforms. The RIO-NG platform is designed around a Common Digital Processing Platform (CDPP) based on the CORTEX M4 ARM processor which provides “standard” functionality to collect, process, format, packetize and transport data.
Bullet made with a heavily leaded glass that will shatter upon impact. Becasue the glass is leaded it can be located by x-ray and can be removed from a person struck by the bullet. Because it will shatter when striking objects it will not ricochet and cause collateral damage to inocent bystanders in a crowded area.
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