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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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Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC) is a sudden and difficult-to-predict severe degradation mode of failure of nuclear, petrochemical, and other industries. This is a development proposal for a very important model´s improvement. This is the slip-step dissolution and film rupture model,
It appears that the medical products presently available to patients lack a critical energy source.
This is very true for Insulin Pump wearers. If the batteries should go bad, there is no backup available until the user can get new ones.
Electronic generator-sea waves energy converter
The movement of large masses of water waves,contain large amounts of kinetic energy.Low speed (frequency) waves is a problem for efficient use-conversion of kinetic energy into electrical energy.Electronic generator solves the problem!
This invention would assist farmers recover parts of their fields that have flooded. Often, only pumps will drain low lying areas, but these are capital intensive and energy intensive. This idea would consist of a metal framework that has a cloth or plastic mesh stretched across it.
Vehicle Rear Green Signal Lights
Indicating Vehicle Acceleration by Turning On
when the Accelerator Pedal is Depressed
My idea is to incorporate additional rear green acceleration signal lights into already existing block of vehicle rear lights.
Primary Flight Control Enhancement (PFCE)
The flight control systems of commercial aircraft in production today are a mind-boggling combination of redundant hardware, and complex software designed to meet the levels of reliability and performance required by the FAA, and to conform to the industry's “best practices,
The blue photocoagulator device is a compact and easy to use device, based on Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology, able to induce hemostasis of superficial bleeding through a photo-thermo-coagulation process, without any collateral damage to surrounding tissue.
I have designed and built a working prototype searchlight that delivers much more light per watt than typical searchlights, is more pleasing to the eye, can be easily and environmentally built using off the shelf parts and materials, some being used in an exciting new way.
As of the early 21st century, there have been no new breakthroughs in the manners of propulsion for aerospace craft. Our generation has suffered this lack of breakthrough. Today we use fossil fuels and rocket propulsions to move around. What is needed is a paradigm shift in propulsion technology.
An inexpensive standalone intelligent device that can take on many avatars.
The device consists of a depth and motion sensing set of cameras and a powerful processor. Combined with proprietary software the system can be used as an interface between users and equipment and machinery.
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