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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 education system is now totally based on pen and paper; we all give exams on a paper sheet and write all our notes on paper. Nearly 4 billion trees worldwide are cut down each year for paper, Think about it,
FTI has developed a Hybrid Regenerative Energy Recovery System (HERS) that allows motor vehicles to perform their every day tasks much more efficiently than any other vehicle without the technology.
Freedom Motors NL has designed an extremely efficient 1,2 and 3-rotor industrial multifuel rotary engine concept. Displacement is 533 cc per rotor, the working rpm range is between 3000 and 4500 rpm, dependable of type and application. The engine/rpm is electronically controlled without throttle, using a (direct) multifuel injection system.
It is time that, for every human being, the medical history to be safely recorded and kept in computer files.
Every time I visit a doctor, he/she always asks about my medical history.
Imagine if we could have a personal account on internet where everyone's medical history is recorded from time of birth (blood type,vaccines,illnesses,surgeries etc.
MOTOR BIKE ENABLED VERTICAL CLIMBER (MOBEVER)
Pole climbing robots have become an interesting area for research in recent years. Several robots have been developed to solve this given problem. Every construction has its own advantages and disadvantages. The goal of this work is to design a pole climbing robot that uses a new climbing principle.
In this concept of climbing,
To date armour systems are typically homogenous in construction (i.e. a monolithic plate) and the localised deformation associated with projectile penetration does not take advantage of the entire strength of the armour piece. The armour system of this proposal is a composite metallic structure which has been named “plymetal.”
At Cavitational Energy Systems LLC we are able to completely convert large amounts of heat energy at very cold temperatures (~30K) to electricity; using the heat energy in the ~30K to ambient temperature difference.
Motorcycle such as a BMW C1 (Fig. 1) meets most requirements for under-served areas. It is affordable, fuel efficient, easy parking, weather resistant and with many other advantages but not safe enough compare to a four wheeler (automobile). A four wheeler is more stable than a two wheeler.
Hybrid rocket propulsion is a promising propulsion system which presents appealing features such as safety, low cost and environment friendliness. On the other hand certain issues like low regression rates, mixture ratio shifting, mixing inefficiencies, etc. restrict its use as a preferred propulsion system.
Explosive Material Identification from a Distance (EMID)
EMID is possible using our Remote Explosive Detection System (REDS) which interrogates the distant unknown suspect material using a high flux pulsed neutron beam, pinging the unknown suspect material thereby creating gamma ray emissions which are then measured along vertical and horizontal axis’s.
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