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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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Cool Tunes is a temperature regulating guitar case. Its goal is to aid in keeping a guitar in a safer temperature range. For instance, personally, when I play the guitar for church or at school, I have to leave my guitar in the car.
This project intends at improving road safety and controlling pollution effectively. It also helps in effective checking of traffic rule violations.
The Trekr Loop Handle© is a new handle design for mankind’s oldest and simplest machines: hammers, hatchets, pickaxes, etc. The loop design offers several advantages over the traditional handles. The loop end makes losing grip on the handle almost impossible;
It is estimated that nearly 2 billion people are using the Internet. Recent studies have shown that news and information are just as important to many of these users as entertainment or shopping.
The Trekr Design Erosion Control Mat © is made from discarded tires. The tires are cut in half along their circumference as one cuts a bagel in half. These are then joined in groups of seven by the use of stainless steel staples or hog-rings.
This proposal provides a CAD driven Robotic Application for Sprayfoam/ShotCrete for the construction of various sizes of residential Monolithic Dome Buildings. The intent is to provide via Computer Aided Design a Controller interface to automate the construction process.
Aircraft/micro-satellites/wearable canteen or backpack computers. All require reduced size & weight, and functional adaptations. The Nano-Frame concept requires the chip industry move forward to the System-On-a-Chip computing slices. This also provides the mechanism and future home for the evolutionary direction we are already heading.
Directional Emergency Exit Sign - Fire Escape Aid
Using a standard illuminated door “Exit” sign, and mounting of “off the shelf” laser lights (example; used as presentation pointers), in outward pointing positions, at 90 and 60 orientations from the center line axis of the sign mounting face,
The Trekr Design Multi-screen Workstation © has four screens in a portable PC configuration. The screens have individual on/off controls, so even when not turned on, the additional screens act as a hood to improve visibility and privacy. My design makes them available in a laptop,
What problem does your design idea solve?
My design idea proposes a sustainable domestic automatic watering system for small horticulture stations in apartments.
What are the potential benefits?
Using my sustainable domestic automatic watering system you can have a domestic horticulture station furnishing fresh ortages.
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