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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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GrowLife Aquaponics (GLA) is striving to educate and enable consumers to re-imagine simple, organic, healthy food production at home. The GLA Off-Grid Recirculatory Aquaponics Starter System is not just a sustainable means of food production, but a regenerative one.
PROBLEM:
Rising food prices (especially meat/organics), complications from processed foods (obesity/allergies),
This device is designed to improve the quality of health in children with mild autism categorized as Aspenger syndrome. It is a glove equipped with sensors and an image projector.
Sensor No.1 will read the blood pressure, sensor No. 2 will capture the body temperature, and sensor No. 3 will provide information about the heartbeat of the child.
As anyone knows who has changed a tire along a busy roadway, an incredible amount of turbulence is created by airflow over and around passing vehicles. This turbulent air is an untapped, kinetic-energy resource; though, it is difficult to harness due to the chaotic intensity and irregular vectors of the energy. A system—HEAT—
Keeping music organized for each individual musician in an orchestra is a chaotic process. Music gets lost or misplaced, pages fall on the floor, pages get out of order. When everyone does get on the same page; the conductor's notations aren't easily shared by all.
Since the discovery of x-rays 110 years ago, affordable x-ray sources have all been point source x-ray tubes, in which x-rays are generated at a single spot on an anode by a single electron beam accelerated at high voltage across a vacuum gap. Generation of x-rays from a single spot,
A variety of measures have been taken to minimize the power consumption of modern electric and hybrid vehicles in order to maximize their range between charges. From an aerodynamic design, to regenerative braking mechanics, manufacturers are creating new ways to harness and reuse the energy lost within a moving vehicle.
A number of companies are working on propulsive atmospheric return in attempt to develop reusable Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing space vehicles. They all use at terminal descent the same controls –vectored trust, usually by a gimbaled engine used at ascent. Despite extensive testing, reliable pinpoint landing has not been demonstrated yet.
The Jala pampa is a water pump
that filters 99. 9 % of
the bacteria in water.
It does this with a ceramic
filter that is located
Car cum aircraft cum hovercraft transportation system & Overpass transportation system, or fastest ambulance in the world.
Design Statement
Car cum Aircraft cum Skater cum Hovercraft (Vehicle drives like as a car, aircraft, skater, hovercraft).
Vehicle looks like as a car, has wings on both sides (improvements in wing technology can be done with modern techniques),
We have chosen to utilize the vortex energy generated at airplane wingtips to generate electricity and power non critical parts of the flight, hence increasing the fuel efficiency.
It is an aspect of wingtip vortices, which has been studied very little in the past.
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