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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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With viruses being a major problem today I designed a low cost, easy to produce personal protection suit that would allow people to still move about and perform some functions without exposing themselves to the hazardous environment we have today and in the future.
I envision my design being constructed of clear vinyl in 4 basic sizes.
Problems:
1. Half of the energy supplied to a typical data center is wasted on cooling electronics, and
2. With 5G there will be an explosion of computing devices at the network edge
Solution: Distributed Computing Networks with LCS Smart Water Heaters
Data processing is undergoing a seismic shift.
This is a product designed specifically for the homeless.
It can effectively help the homeless and provide them a place to sleep and rest with the least cost. This will let them realize that society and the government have not forgotten them. In additional, we design it a temporary place,
Capsule Vaccine is a simple, disposable vaccine syringe designed initially for the people of Africa. The biggest feature of this vaccine syringe is that it is simple and convenient to operate. Users can make their own injections, which no longer require a large number of professional medical staff to participate, and can effectively save human resources.
Elinfect is designed to force the vaccine syringe to become disposable so as to completely eliminate the infection caused by repeated use of the syringe. Therefore, two protrusions are added to the bottom of the syringe. When the syringe is pushed to the bottom, the protrusions on both sides limit the extraction of the piston, making the syringe unusable.
Nowadays desertification is no longer a purely ecological and environmental problem, but also an economic and social problem, which brings poverty and social instability to human beings. For those threatened by desertification, it means that they will lose their most basic subsistence -- a lack of food.
I think I have a very simple solution that can be produced inexpensively, that could turn large open areas into a great many isolation rooms.
One hand replacing two-hands to perform dual fastener fastening or loosening, the “1 hand DUAL FASTENER MANIPULATION DEVICE" can be used to manipulate two fasteners with the same axis of rotation and to manipulate the fasteners of the same axis of rotation separated by the intermediate material,
Classically trained engineers have been left with the impression it is impossible to control 100% of the torque generated by a single lift rotor, using only the downdraft, within the same diameter as the lift rotor, because 100% of the torque minus 100% of the torque would leave no useable downdraft.
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