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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 amazing winners in 2024 as well as honorable mentions in each category, plus the top ten most popular entries as voted by our community.
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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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Our team at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center developed a highly accurate method for measuring liquid levels using optical fibers. Unlike liquid level gauges currently on the market that rely on discrete measurements to give broad approximations of liquid levels, Armstrong’s innovative fiber optic method provides precise and accurate measurements. Specifically,
In vitro studies of cell behavior are an essential prerequisite in determining in vivo responses to pharmacological agents, cell therapies, biomaterials, and implantable devices. However, culturing mammalian cells on a conventional Petri dish is not an accurate representation of the in vivo environment and as a result cells behave in a way that may not be medically relevant.
This new steerable recreational exercise sportcraft is a treadmill mounted between two floatation pontoons. When a person walks or runs on the treadmill, his motion ultimately propels the craft forward or backward with its 360 degree steerable propulsion. The tread is a continuous belt mounted on a set of several parallel rollers wrapping around, under,
With an Auxiliary Driver equipped power drill, you can drill a pilot hole and drive a screw in the hole using only one hand!
The Auxiliary Driver is a supplemental drill/driver that works with all power drills, drivers and rotary tools.
This valve design has a novel hollow, balanced piston, which is moved into an open or closed position against a stationary solid seat within the valve body by using the working fluid or an external pressure source to seal the valve.
'Doctor Robo' is an innovative concept wherein an intelligent sensors based device is being developed. This device will act like an extension of doctor's diagnosis tools. The device can also sit with a doctor to assist in recording diagnosis data, recording bio-metrics of the patient and comparing the progress with medication from visit to visit.
I demonstrated live at COALASIA 2012 (New-Delhi, India) that I can produce coal with a reagent from potash, limestone and soda water (these are material of flue gas of coal, oil, gas, biogas power plants) in room temperature, under atmospheric pressure, in water, in a glas tube without having to resort to an external energy resource and catalyst.
Robotic head to drill wells in the ground by explosive charges with the cumulative intermediate medium - water, allows a very fast drill hole at any ground, an average of approx. 300m -700m ,daily. Basic element of the head is shaped charge explosive ending conical tank with water.
A simple, flexible, innovative design to capture wind energy at a fraction of the price, the AirLoom has the potential to disrupt the entire (not just renewable) electricity generation market.
The AirLoom dramatically reduces the capital cost of wind turbines by an astounding 15X over the dominant wind technology, the horizontal axis wind turbine (HAWT).
Ischemia, a local blood supply disorder resulting from reduction or complete deficiency of blood supply in an organ or in a tissue caused by constriction or obstruction of its blood vessels, resulting in hypoxia, malnutrition and finally necrosis of the part of an organ suffering from ischemic process, is a frequent phenomenon in pathogenesis of many clinical conditions,
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