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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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Every year 10 million people die from cancer, 6.8 million die from neurological disorders, and half a million die from neglected tropical diseases. Although there are tremendous advancements being made in these fields every day, there's still a dire need for better, cheaper, and more accessible treatments. By miniaturizing the test tube,
Patients with Parkinson's disease or Essential Tremor commonly experience uncontrollable tremor in the hands. These symptoms range from bothersome to debilitating and their occurrence is frequent and unpredictable. Usually the patients are otherwise fully functional but their abilities to use their fingers in critical tasks, such as writing, typing, utensils or smart phone use, are greatly affected.
Our long-term goal is to develop home-based wearable technology solutions to detect and monitor health conditions indicated by disease-specific biomarkers from the saliva in real-time. Disease prevention is the secret to longevity. A healthy lifestyle combined with disease prevention can protect, promote, and maintain health and well-being and to prevent disease, disability, and death.
The current invention proposes novel, improved designs for high pulse energy transverse discharge gas lasers such as excimer lasers. The new designs provide an annular gain path, capitalizing on grazing incidence reflections from laser electrode surfaces and enabling the engineering of very low inductance electric discharge circuits, efficient gas circulation,
Vegetable oils are abundant and not very expensive renewable raw materials. Soybean oil is one of the most attractive. More than 20 billion pounds of soybean oils are produced annually in the United States. Less than 600 million pounds of them are used for industrial application. Vegetable oils for making PSAs has a number of advantages, low cost,
Born from a desire to build the best damn camper known to man, the TOPO2 is a premium teardrop trailer that doesn’t ask you to choose adventure over comfort.
The stunning exterior of the TOPO2 is made of a single-piece composite fiberglass shell. Its stiffness comes from our unique PET core made from recycled milk cartons.
Rudra is a smart health assistant spherical mobile robot capable of indoor navigation with applications in hospital floors or at homes. The purpose of Rudra is to customize to a human's needs. With the ability to follow the specified human and look out for any obstacles, Rudra can assist the visually impaired and prevent any injuries.
In the COVID situation, we saw that the people who suffered more are the elderly who live alone (i.e., elderly people are in a situation where they aren't able to contact anybody in the wrong situation).
Taking this as an inspiration, our team intended to provide a solution (hardware + software) that rectifies the issue.
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