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Since Tech Briefs magazine launched the Create the Future Design contest in 2002 to recognize and reward engineering innovation, over 16,000 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 in our 2026 contest opening March 1.
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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 TO SOLVE:
Screening and Lab analysis are performed at Lab with an expensive equipment, (Maintenance, periodic calibration, difficult to operate)
Samples are manually tagged, analyzed by a health care professional, and results are entered manually (Lack of digitization Risk of human errors).
Analyses are done hours in some cases days after sampling (Waste of time,
INTRODUCTION:
Blade fatigue, due to cavitation in rocket engine turbopumps, often triggers catastrophic system failures, costing backers of space missions, launch vehicle operators and their customers millions of dollars every year. The Next Planet Research VFI-689M System has the potential for reducing pump failures by optimizing launch vehicle performance and improving safety margins.
Why not build a truly non-invasive blood glucose meter out of a short-wave infrared (SWIR) reflectance spectrometer, and use the changes in skin spectra it measures due to the cardiac pulse cycle to produce interference free blood spectra for analysis? Availability of a hand held version of this device eliminates painful blood samples, lancets,
The advancements made in the fields of technology and automobiles has led many drivers to believe they are auditioning for the next Fast and Furious movie. This has contributed to car crashes being the number one cause of death for 5 to 29 year old’s and has claimed approximately 1.35 million lives a year worldwide.
Each year, 90 Americans are killed in lawn mowing accidents. Countless more are injured, and the average homeowner will spend 1% of their life mowing their lawn. With technological advances in GNSS positioning, sensor fusion, and obstacle avoidance and detection, autonomous lawn mowers are now a real possibility. This product will save lives, prevent injuries, 
We propose an alternative heatshield design for SpaceX’s Starship. It solves the problem of how to efficiently make a heatshield core material made of steel alloy that can be formed into double asymmetric curvatures without distortion and which has an interstitial space to hold either fuel or water in between the sandwich layers.
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, members of all industries had to start working from home - for some, the lack of a commute and flexible hours felt like a great improvement; for others, the zoom fatigue and isolation made it difficult to focus. Regardless of the experience, it’s clear that remote work is here to stay, 
This is the idea: a new concept of the suspension system in commercial vehicles, to eliminate basic components and have major control.
Objective: Develop the new suspension system in commercial vehicles.
Plan:
Improve the current system
Taking the Maglev design as a preamble, now it is to introduce it to the suspension system eliminating components such as shock absorbers,
The heavy duty trucks generate a turbulent flow around the truck and trailer periphery but the turbulent flow or high air pressure areas are more considerable at the rear of the trailer or the box or the container.
Background: Swimming pool drownings are one of the most feared threats to our children. Globally, the highest drowning rates are among children 1–4 years, followed by children 5–9 years of age. Eighty-seven percent of drowning fatalities happen in home pools and spas for children under five. Regardless of the statistics, pool drownings are a threat to all ages.
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