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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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The Solo/ UCV is a high performance, single seat Urban Commuter Vehicle designed to offer new ideas in personal transportation. It is the product of the principals’ 70+ years experience in the motorsports, aircraft and composite materials industries. The Solo is ultra-light,
When a home owner installs a Photo-Voltaic (PV) system to generate renewable solar power, he/she must sign a contract with the power provider. In addition, the home owner must pay the power provider the cost of a new 2-channel meter and its installation – not a small price.
The Problem
Friction is the world's single biggest waste of energy. New polymeric and nano-composite bearing material “recipes” promise substantial friction reducing solutions. However, their development and application are often hindered by current tribological (the study of lubrication, friction and wear) test systems, driven by three recognized issues:
• Long test time: Due to measurement limitations,
The Mini Infuser™ is a miniature, disposable, programmable drug delivery device designed to significantly lower the cost of patient care while improving a patients lifestyle with increased pharmacological safety, patient mobility and fewer needle sticks.
WHAT PROBLEMS DOES YOUR DESIGN IDEA SOLVE
The prototype should act as a vest personal lifeboat JCB in all kinds of shipwrecks. It consists of several protective layers of plastic or extremely strong polymers, the penultimate formed by a medieval mesh, to protect against shark attacks in particular.
A whole new generation of purely electric vehicles and "Plug-in" hybrids will soon be commercially available and attention has to be given to creating the infrastructure required to keep the batteries of these vehicles fully charged during their urban commutes.
Thin client built into the keyboard
Even thin clients for network use, instead of thick client alias stationary computers, are not as small as could be.
As you anyway have to use a keyboard, you could as well build the electronics into the keyboard as one unit. Perhaps you also could add an optical drive,
48% of US consumers are unhappy with store bought tomatoes. In 2009, 43 million households grew vegetables; 9 million were new to gardening. Tomatoes are one of the most challenging vegetables to grow. Lack of space, expertise, time, sunlight, or unpredictable outdoor conditions prevent home gardeners from successfully growing tomatoes.
LANDIT SYSTEMS INC. U.S. PATENT US 7,414,527 B2
Security/identification system for the transportation industry. Applicable at warehouses, military installations, ports of entry and any place requiring high level of security. Here's how it works:
A. LANDIT LINE - Partially ground-imbedded structure resembling parking area painted guidance line, at parking area deploying Line R/D.
The traffic situation is bad and getting worse. Congestion delays the average American driver hundreds of hours per year. Such a situation robs productivity, increases air pollution, and wastes petroleum. The need to alleviate the congestion leads to the building of new roads and bridges that do little to help.
One constraint causes much of the congestion.
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