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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 top entries in 2023 as well as past winners whose ideas are now in the market, making a difference in the world.
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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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Adhesive tape is a widely used product in both homes and offices. Though engineers and scientists have worked for decades to improve it and create specialty tapes for a variety of circumstances, there is one problem that they have not yet addressed.
The key problem in the future is the supply of energy and its impact on our climate. One of the key factors in solving this problem is reducing demand for electricity.
Arthritis, Carpal Tunnel and other pain causing diseases are some of the most worried about issues facing workers today. Carpal Tunnel has a prevalence rate in the United States of fifty to around a hundred per one thousand tested.
The problem with bench pressing is that you may actually exhaust yourself to the point that you can not push the barbell off of you or high enough to place it back on the supports. My design completely eliminates this problem,
The MicBall is a non-intimidating microphone that enables users to conveniently participate in spacious, otherwise hard to navigate environments by tossing it from one user to another.
INTRODUCTION
Bio-refineries are analogous to petroleum refineries, which produce multiple fuels and products from crude petroleum. By producing multiple products, a bio-refinery takes advantage of the various elements in biomass and their components, maximizing their value.
For example,
The SST is a simple, but highly accurate, tracking system to keep photovoltaic panels or other sun energy receivers oriented accurately to obtain highest possible receiver efficiency.
Description:
The SST simply consists of small photovoltaic panels, a shadow board,
1.Elevator Pitch
The pull tab of most beverage or food containers is difficult to open. I have invented several concepts to make the pull tab “more user friendly”.
Construction zones are rarely regarded in a positive light, and for good reasons:
• Commuters languish in construction zones when roads need renovation or find finding alternate routes in an effort to avoid losing precious time to traffic jams.
• Local retail business suffer,
Current implementations of MICROPHONE mute switches use either a momentary or a maintained connection push-button foot switch, an in-line shorting switch at or in the microphone connector, or a switch within the microphone body itself.
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