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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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Drones are being developed and soon it will be possible to have drones that carry passengers.
This project consists of a flying tricopter for passengers that can be transformed into a car, occupying minimum space and affordable. Such a drone will transport 5 passengers and will be slightly bigger than a car when utilized on the ground.
American interstates account for ~23% of all passenger miles traveled a year, ~$82.5 billion in consumer gasoline purchases, ~$66 billion in federal and state construction and maintenance, ~$82.5 billion in vehicle depreciation and ~6,000 deaths a year.
Proposed Solution:
Install 'light' rail on the interior lanes of different sections of the US interstate network,
We must turn the threat of the melting of the Poles and it consequent raising of the water levels in the oceans as a benefit, not a wrath. Water is a precious component for our lives so we must utilize the extra water coming from the climate warming.
This system tries to account for various parameters of water like pH, turbidity, TDS (total dissolved solids), BOD (Biological Oxygen Demand) to create a water quality index for the lakes. Lakes, as we know, form an important part in our ecosystem.
The Apnosystems Infant Care System (ICS) device is a life saving medical intervention that can cause a sleeping infant that has ceased breathing to stir, and resume breathing. This wearable will change the way we care babies, both as in-hospital and at home babies.
Premature, low birthweight babies,
The HydroCharge is a portable, self-sustaining charging dock, that is perfect for the environmentally conscious outdoorsman on the go. This compact design with a small and efficient turbine is only 8” x 10” x 2” and weighs approximately 2lbs. This product is perfect for all of those summer camping trips.
This tube will be very useful to do work from a safe distance. We can use this tube for cutting, brushing, cleaning, monitoring, holding and for many other types of work. This tube will work as a Robotic arm.
Mechanism: According to the diagram there will be a flexible rubber tube which will be filled with ferrofluid.
In the kitchen there is a problem of putting down hot utensils without a proper holder and mostly people use either a cloth piece or a conventional hot utensil holder but there is always a risk of sliding of hot utensils when someone uses a cloth piece or conventional holder.
The SMART SEA RESCUE WATERCRAFT is a programmable GPS controlled autonomous rescue speed boat. It may alternatively be configured as a self driving hydrofoil, catamaran, or amphibious hovercraft. It can be preprogrammed and sent unmanned to a GPS location to return rescue a navy sailor, downed Air Force pilot, an accident survivor in a life jacket, disabled boat,
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