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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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This aircraft runs on current bladeless fan available in market has propeller. Electric power from a fuel cell or battery is used to run the bladeless fan. Two bladeless fans are placed on either side of the wing and the impeller arrangement is kept inside the wing.
The Tooth Fairy™ is a patent-pending appliance (20040118427 Palfy et al., 2002) for use by the millions who wear retainers, dentures, plates and sports mouth guards and require improved oral hygiene. Hand brushing is messy and of limited utility, while effervescing tablet soaks are expensive, sanitize poorly and leave an unpleasant long-lasting aftertaste.
This idea provides two benefits simultaneously - it produces free electricity and reduces flooding and erosion.
The idea is to put large rain-storage tanks on the roofs of skyscrapers. Then hours or days after a rain storm, the water would flow to ground level through a pipe with a water turbine to generate electricity.
Many third world countries suffer from disease and death due to lack of clean water sources. Areas which are subject to high temperatures, dry weather, and semi-arrid conditions make storing clean water difficult.
This very simple device is a portable unit called a "water farm." Made of rugged polymers, it functions using condensation,
A Symbiotic Structural Health Monitoring and
Structural Control System for Resilient Highway Bridges
Our transportation infrastructure is subjected to many natural and man-made hazards as well as daily traffic loadings. For this reason, a symbiotic structural health monitoring and structural control system is proposed to increase the resilience of highway bridges.
Thinking of reducing your household and office (cubical) energy consumptions? The Intelligent Energy Manager is exactly what one might be looking for. This is an Electronic Energy Meter integrated with GSM modem, a mobile SIM and an electronic control unit. i-Energy manager provides full cell phone connectivity ,
This design presents a method for preventing vehicles from corroding each other. As experienced by most of people that two cars are driven on the road, the second car (the car behind) is often approaching the first car (the front car) so close that the driver in the first car almost feels that the second car will him.
More than 24 million Americans endure the pain of a Root Canal every year. A Root Canal, or Endodontic Therapy, requires a hole to be drilled in the infected tooth to facilitate the removal of infection. To remove infection deep within the canals of the tooth, Dental Professionals employ an Endodontic File.
"Digitally Timed Gas Mileage" is my invention. It will tell you how much time (hours,min,sec) is left until you have to refuel your car. This will replace the empty/full gauge with a digital clock, showing how much time is left. It will be based off RPM's.
A Detonation Flame Arrestor (DFA) is designed to extinguish a flame front resulting from an explosion or detonation of a gas in a pipeline. However, in addition to extinguishing the flame, the DFA must be capable of dissipating (attenuate) the pressure front that precedes the flame front.
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