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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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Problem: In India, getting stuck in traffic is something that everyone has to go through every day. But how often do you see an ambulance with a person struggling for his life stuck behind you. You want to help by giving way, but you can’
Introduction:
According to DENATRAN (National Department of Transit) in December 2013 the total Brazilian fleet was 79 million vehicles including 21 million (26.5%) motorcycles. Every year 5 million new vehicles are introduced in the fleet including 1.2 million motorcycles.
In the last 15 years,
Dishwashers normally have a fine filter to capture food soils from dishes during wash cycles. Soil may be accumulated on the filter surface hence partially or completely clog it. When this happens, water may not go through filter sufficiently to supply circulation pump,
The automobile is the defacto mass transportation system in the USA that is strangling most cities in massive traffic and pollution. Replacing it with a rail or subway system is too expensive (right-of-ways, new bridges, tunnels, stations, etc.) and has marginal value for the average commuter.
Figures illustrate a massive thermoplastic-impregnating fiber-weaving-loom, designed to simultaneously-weave-fold-and-stack, two double-layered (up to) 600-foot-wide by one-mile-long thin-flexible-expansible-fiber-reinforced-plastic-barrier-sheets onto a central 600-foot long multi-segmented robotic-platform delivery-vehicle,
A Snake's body is very flexible to travel through challenging paths even there are complex obstacles. Snakes uses different methods to do this such as undulatory/serpentine, Side-winding, Caterpillar, Concertina locomotion.
What is Snake Hand?
Snake hand is a lengthy hydraulic robot with a controlling base station.
In today's world, airplanes and skyscrapers are the places where the risk to life is very high. People hesitate to board airplanes or work in multi-story buildings but there is no way out so, we have to take the risk.
Every year millions of people have to deal with damaged roads and potholes. The slow pace of repair work greatly hampers movement of people, goods and services and causes inconvenience to countless people. We intend to address the root cause of this problem,
Many kinds of multicopters have been developed recently. One of the most interesting ways of use is photography from the air. It must be useful that if it were possible that taking pictures of a car from the air by a multicopter.
- Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, biological contaminants, suspended solids and gases from contaminated water.
- Around 80 percent of diseases in India is caused by water-borne micro-organisms. According to a 2009 World Health Organization report,
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