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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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For an unassisted person using a manual wheelchair, small barriers can impede safe passage, cause stranding, and contribute to user accidents. Wheelramps provide easier and safer passage over these barriers. Wheelchair-related hospital admissions will be reduced and users can enjoy improved independence.
A usual caster consists of a wheel mounted on a horizontal axis,
Smart Safety Jacket is an IOT technology based device used for safety purpose of the employees who work in mining site and construction site. By carrying out research on construction and mining industries the statistical report says that the accident is always a combination of hazards and cause.
Fresh produces are important sources of many nutrients, including potassium, dietary fiber, folate (folic acid), vitamin A, and vitamin C which are naturally low in fat and calories. Because of multiple health benefits and availability consumption of fresh produces is in rise among world people. As the fresh-cut produce market continues to grow,
The universal joint has been fundamentally the same for the last century ... until now. The new approach uses a square ball and seven other components, which is a stark contrast to the more than 100 parts found in standard u-joints.
The assembly is simplified by replacing many central components with one – a Square Ball.
In this system two modules are to be placed on opposite sides of each door knob as well as a sensor mounted on either side of the door to detect the presence of a human for safety.
I am in this contest to buy materials for the FREE classes I teach on beginner robotics/animatronics.
The RoboGuts circuit board is designed to host most of the MCU chips or modules on the market today in a footprint the same size as an Arduino UNO board.
Solids are better insulators than liquids and there are materials that are more dense in their solid rather than their liquid phase. These two facts are at the heart of an innovative way to improve efficiency in concentrated solar energy plants. Formation of crusts of solid phase change materials reduces efficiency during operation.
The government is aiming to make the country a 100 per cent electric vehicle nation but the main problem is creating the charging infrastructure throughout the country, because the charge of the electric automobiles won’t last long.
For decades the water bottles have been packaged with plastic shrink wrap all around the world. This entry introduces an innovative sustainable idea to substitute this unsustainable amount of plastic with recycled paper.
The following parameters were considered crucial:
1. Usage of a paper along its life cycle instead of plastic mass (less production energy consumption, minimum disposal,
The present project is about thermal insulation for rooftops made with recycled crumb rubber from scrap tires that responds to ecological and social problems, such as impacts to the ecosystem caused by dumped tires (fires/groundwater pollution…), health impacts (vectors/fires...),
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