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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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This paper presents the Aether Escape Pod, an advanced sensory-therapy enclosure designed to address the growing global challenges of mental health deterioration, isolation, and emotional dysregulation. The pod’s aerodynamic, cocoon-like structure is engineered from carbon-fiber composites, providing physical security while maximizing acoustic insulation and environmental control. Inside,
We have over the course of three years developed an engine specifically designed to address the needs of commercial drones seeking use-cases where battery technology offers insufficient energy density to make possible. It's a Fickett-Jacobs Cycle Pulse Detonation Engine for shaft power.
GoldTrack UVIR flashlight is a universal device for field work with three lighting modes: white light, ultraviolet and infrared. The built-in GPS module records the coordinates of finds, eliminating the need for surveyors. This is not just a flashlight - it is a tool for geologists, prospectors, archaeologists, tourists, engineers, hunters and nature lovers. Convenient, lightweight,
TRICK CYCLE TURBINE's TOMAHAWK TX Turbine design first described in MOTORTREND here: was invented by CEO Reggie Huff and put into SOLIDWORKS for Demonstration and analysis by HFI Global LLC.
All designs and pending patents are the property of TRICK CYCLE TURBINE LTD.
The Tomahawk TX is a multi-axis turbine which forms a combustion chamber as it rotates,
Hybrid Fuel Injection (pioneered by XCENTRICK INNOVATIONS LTD and licensed for export from the US by HFI Global LLC) has proven to improve fuel economy in port fuel injected vehicles approaching and in some cases surpassing performance of direct fuel injection efficiency.
XCENTRICK remains focused on OEM licenses etc,
Our "HidraThor" grounding system is a revolutionary invention that is placed vertically at 1.4m depth in the ground to minimize the risk of death by electrocution due to accidental electrical discharges, currently 2.4m rods are used that are buried almost 3m deep, our system is different because it is less deep but with a larger diameter,
Transportation vehicles of all kinds can have all electric drive trains before sufficient electricity production and distribution grids can be brought online by using FSHEV (Full Series Hybrid Electric Vehicles).
These vehicles will have a Droplet Rotary Internal Combustion Engine (DRICE) driving an Electric Motor/Generator that charges the batteries while an all electric drive train moves the vehicle.
Internal combustion engines operate with fuel, ignition and air to generate energy by igniting the fuel to create high cylinder pressures. The more efficient that the ignition is, the more power that the engine creates for a given size of engine.
Air that internal combustion engines “breathes” is a mixture of approximately 80/20 nitrogen and oxygen. Nitrogen per se,
The "INDUCE" reactive energy saver is a Peruvian invention that allows for reducing or eliminating capacitive reactive energy, thus generating economic savings for the user. It is an automatic inductor controlled by an electronic circuit and a current detector that measures the load current of an installation. Upon detecting the predetermined current, the inductor automatically connects,
Spacecraft electronics are vulnerable to damage from temperature extremes, impacts, and long missions. Traditional PCBs cannot repair themselves after cracks or fractures, risking total mission failure.
This invention introduces self-healing PCB circuits using embedded microfluid channels underneath the electrical traces. If a trace fractures, conductive liquid metal flows into the break and restores the circuit automatically.
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