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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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Reducing dependency on carbon fuels is a major goal and concern for many. One way to do this is to increase gas mileage as well as reduce the use of combustion engines that also burn oil as well.
Recent scientific studies have verified that the surface tension and freezing point of water can be lowered by negative electrostatic charge.All metals , minerals, proteins and amino acids never go into solution; they are held in suspension as minute particles by negative electrostatic charge on colloids- a little understood application of Zeta Potential.
Has the sound of the oil truck backing into your driveway ever scared you? How about waking to find no heat in the house because you ran out of oil. How many people reading this can say how much oil they have, without going down to the basement, garage or outside? Neither can I.
The Olympus is a four passenger business aircraft capable of performing point-to-point (PtP) vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) air transportation whilst outperforming state-off-the-art helicopters on speed, range and noise emissions. The aircraft features a balanced combination of conventional aerospace techniques with several unique innovations,
With recreational camping becoming more and more extreme, so are the risks. As campers extend their treks into unexplored terrain, a wide variety of things can effect the safety of their trip. With the Survival Solar Cooker campers no longer need to fear not having safe drinking water and properly prepared food.
The Live Information Bus Stop (LIBS) keeps people up-to-date on the location of their bus. By using location tracking (GPS), any bus system could signal all equipped bus stops with the current position of buses that frequent any given stop. Since they use little energy,
Aivaka has created the Thermo-Charge System. This is an energy harvesting system that creates electric power from the difference between human body temperature and outside air. This can be used as a backup power source to charge the batteries in consumer electronic devices such as cell phones and MP3 players.
Too often, people get lost while skiing, hiking,
The Baumann Strain Gage Grid™ (BauSGG™) will be used to continuously monitor the safety of reinforced concrete bridge structures.
In the recent past, concrete bridges in the U.S. and elsewhere have collapsed causing deaths and great financial loss and interruption of transportation systems.
The BauSGG™ is a proprietary design modification of the patented BauGrid® Welded Reinforcement Grid™ (BauGrid® WRG™).
The Baumann Green Floor™ (BauGF™)
The proprietary Baumann Green Floor™ (BauGF™) is designed to take advantage of what is called the “thermal flywheel effect of concrete.”
Concrete has the ability to efficiently store thermal energy, and then later, efficiently release this energy.
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