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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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This invention allows one to locate frequently misplaced items such as a key, that one sock, the remote, etc. It uses a ubiquitous technology, namely, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags. Passive RFID tags (those with no battery) are now in most products we purchase.
The submitted motor-generator for an electric car has many rotors. But it differs from usual that radiuses of rotors are various. This difference of radiuses allows to use energy of centrifugal acceleration for reception of superfluous capacity.
During start all rotors work in a mode of the motor.
My main aim was to have a project that has an equal involvement of hardware and software. Also we decided to take up a project that is visually appealing and ended up concentrating on the latest display technologies.
Our recent development relates to a Micro-Plasma Surgical Scalpel (MPSS) having the capabilities of being used to perform a broad range of surgical procedures such as but not limited to the following:
• Incision: The separation of biological tissues - surgical cutting
• Ablation: The removal of tissue
My idea: an Ultralight SCUBA Diving Device or C.U.B.A. -- for Compact Ultralight Breathing Apparatus. It's essentially a low-tech, no frills, pure oxygen Recreational Rebreather for shallow water diving on vacations. SCUBA diving rigs are heavy, bulky, complicated, expensive and waste about 95% of their compressed breathing gas.
The whole world is facing a water crisis. Every drop of water is precious and to be saved. We waste a lot of water in our daily life. Most of the water is wasted while washing the face, brushing teeth, shaving and cleaning utensils in a kitchen.
Between two railway rails there must be a thermal space gap to accommodate the steel track thermal expansion due to environment temperature change. When a railway car’s wheel passes this gap, it causes impact between wheel and track and causes vibration. It also causes material fatigue, equipment wear,
This is an innovative keyboard design that can be operated one handed, left or right hand, or with both hands, by pressing only one or two of the ten buttons. There is one key for each finger but each finger can cross the 2mm divide and press two buttons.
The Helium Turbine Engine is an external combustion engine. In this image the burner is designed for burning liquid or gas fuels.
The engine works by heating a propellant made from Helium and two other propellant gases. The propellant gas circulates from the hot side to the 'cold' side,
The SuperCritical Air Mobility Pack (SCAMP) provides breathing air and full body cooling for hazardous materials workers, firefighters, and industry. Breathing air is essential for workers under oxygen deficient conditions or where toxic gases are or may be present. In addition to providing the basic air supply,
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