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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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Poor farmers from around the world need affordable ways to pump underground water to irrigate their crops, so they can feed their families and earn income. To respond to this challenge, we present a low-cost and low-maintenance steam pump powered by solar heat.
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This is a new type of hybrid combustor for turbine driven jet engines which will utilise the convenience of using a conventional combustor to start scramjet combustion that will drive the turbine of a jet engine. The idea is that, after the jet engine has started by means of using the turboscramjet combustor’s built-in conventional combustor,
Make a hub where a driver can be welcomed by humans but all the mechanism are fully automated and schedulable/visible from a mobile device. From the access point the car is left with its key in it. The customer might have planned a car wash, a repair, customization, a tune-up or even to sell it.
key Features:
- One of the few calculators with resizable window (up to full screen) in order to allow a wide input/output field for huge numbers (horizontal) and deeply nested calculation (vertical).
- Nesting of calculation kept shown in calculation area that may become vertically scrollable for deeply nested calculation.
I discovered and then defined "thermodielectrophoresis" (or tDEP) in the specification of my US Patent 7,486,000 as being the constant flow or movement of a dielectric medium through a non-uniform electric field that's caused by an increase or decrease in the electrical permittivity of the dielectric medium due to the proper application of thermal energy from any source.
Breastfeeding is the natural way to feed a baby, and the benefits of breastfeeding extend well beyond basic nutrition. However, some women, as much as they want to, are just unable to breastfeed, at least not exclusively.
It is therefore desirable to provide nutritional compositions, such as synthetic infant formulas, that can produce nutritional benefits in infants.
These days cell/smart phones are used for a variety of purposes. The basic functionality of any phone is to make calls and text (SMS). Due to various applications usage, battery drains quickly and we need to find source to charge quickly. I have seen many people struggling to find a power plug at the airport to charge the phone.
Personal Mobility Enhancer (PME) is a proposed application for Wearable Power Modules (WPM). Visit www.kanslab.com for more details.
* Prevalence: In 2012, 29.1 million Americans, or 9.3% of the population, had diabetes. Approximately 1.25 million American children and adults have type 1 diabetes.
* Undiagnosed: Of the 29.1 million, 21.0 million were diagnosed, and 8.1 million were undiagnosed.
* Prevalence in Seniors: The percentage of Americans age 65 and older remains high, at 25.9%,
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