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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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Ever wondered what your car is up to when you are busy working in your plush offices?...Well, the answer is NOTHING!
With the rapid depletion of natural energy resources and increasing pressure on countries to curb their carbon emissions (Australia being the latest example where Govt. is planning to introduce Carbon Taxes),
The mechanistic recuperation of gravitational force and the transformation of that force into electrical current is based on a simplistic corollary to Newton’s third law; that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. In the case of the Micro-Efficient Electro-mechanical multiplied-system self-sustaining reaction,
THE LANDIN ENGINE
Invented by Peter Landin. It has only three moving parts, and may be the engine of the future. The moving parts: a rotor (in blue), an orbital swivel valve (in red), and a stationary swivel valve (in yellow), form a variable combustion chamber. As this chamber increases its capacity,
Automation is not yet there in the transportation sector.
Our aim is to bring Full Automation here.
By using RuBee Protocol we are going to implement this.
RuBee is a Transceiver, its cost is Rs:1500/- (cheap to buy).
This Rubee Tag will have a Vehicle Identification Number and this was kept in the vehicle chase,
Forearm and Shoulder LIFTING STRAPS are well known. They help reduce the effort needed to lift and move large, heavy objects. They make it much easier for a team of two people to safely get the job done.
When cargo is placed on a truck or trailer to be transported, TIE DOWN STRAPS are generally employed to secure it.
...By Golly, This Furniture Dolly Is A Trolley!
Furniture Dollies are common and well known. They are a great tool to help move large, heavy loads that can sit securely on top of the dolly.
To carry and move large, thin items, it is best to employ a Panel Trolley. They have vertical supports to hold large,
The problem being solved:
A collection of common types and sizes of wrenches (Standard, Flexible, S-Shape, Half Moon, etc.) are needed to safely tighten or loosen a fastener and without damage to the fastener. Such a collection of wrenches can become quite large. Accordingly, the cost to accumulate a large collection of wrenches can get expensive. Also, bigger,
This product is designed to assist with the assembly and servicing of electronics circuit boards (PCBs).
Many circuit boards are large and complex, with a vast quantity of small components. When working on such a PCB, it is often necessary to locate specific components. Finding the specific part among the many can often be difficult and time consuming.
Audio feature estimation involves measuring key characteristics from the audio. It is possible to estimate features using an auditory memory model. In order to do so, an onset detection is necessary to identify new audio components to insert into the auditory memory,
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