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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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This invention deals with an electronically controllable Variable Valve Lift System for internal combustion engines.
This system is a mechanical transmission having the capability of varying the lift of the intake and/or exhaust poppet valves while the engine is running and when varying its working conditions. Said variations being continuous and within wide limits.
All corporations, and individuals, suffer from an every-increasing onslaught of security threats. Especially in the government and in large corporations, there is always the risk of somebody sitting on your chair over the weekend or at 3 AM, booting your machine with a DVD and installing or stealing high-risk, or illegal information.
Many of today micro-controllers circuit were developed for battery operation.
It is a hard task to debug the product for power consumption.
My idea is to develop a low cost power debugger - an electronic measuring system (software & hardware),
Trenitalia did some research efforts to develop Ethernet based networks suited for the on board train harsh environment and identified the main technical challenges to deal with such a sophisticated mobile local area network:
• fault tolerant local area network
• topology constraints due to train architecture
• data cabling requirements due to very strict fire-flames rules
• data connector housing requirements
Although there are a number of cello cases availalbe on the market for the hundreds of thousands of student cellists, there is currently a sizable gap in the cost of these cases. Low-cost cases (up to $200+) are mostly 'soft' cases (bags), which provide minimal protection for these expensive and fragile instruments.
The SIFC device obtains data from physical objects to virtual objects, shares between two virtual objects and controls the physical object if it can be, based on certain control boundaries. A physical object can be a book, a car or any kind of electronics inside the home or office and any kind of physical objects around us.
GEDAYC is a new concept of wind turbines with blades and Comets 50% more efficient than propeller models. Thanks to its design and the wide range of wind that generates energy from weak to very strong winds.
The idea is to create a logistics company that manages the design,
Water is an essential commodity for life on Earth. Drinking water is supplied to people living in urban areas from the major and minor water supply schemes. Most of those living in rural areas pump water into the overhead tanks from their own wells of at least 1m in diameter.
A major problem with mobile phones and other portable multimedia devices (MP3, Media players) is that these devices need some standby time during the charging process. Obviously the user has to plug the device into a power socket to charge it. During this charging time the device's portability is lost and ultimately its usability suffers.
HIV is known to be a virus that is very sensitive in both temperature changes or pH changes in the host environment or when exposed to atmospheric conditions.
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