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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 invention would assist farmers recover parts of their fields that have flooded. Often, only pumps will drain low lying areas, but these are capital intensive and energy intensive. This idea would consist of a metal framework that has a cloth or plastic mesh stretched across it. Water would soak into the lower part, submerged in the flood water,
Vehicle Rear Green Signal Lights
Indicating Vehicle Acceleration by Turning On
when the Accelerator Pedal is Depressed
My idea is to incorporate additional rear green acceleration signal lights into already existing block of vehicle rear lights. Additional rear green acceleration signal lights are turned on automatically when the accelerator pedal is depressed and a vehicle accelerates.
Primary Flight Control Enhancement (PFCE)
The flight control systems of commercial aircraft in production today are a mind-boggling combination of redundant hardware, and complex software designed to meet the levels of reliability and performance required by the FAA, and to conform to the industry's “best practices,” to stay competitive. However,
The blue photocoagulator device is a compact and easy to use device, based on Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology, able to induce hemostasis of superficial bleeding through a photo-thermo-coagulation process, without any collateral damage to surrounding tissue.
I have designed and built a working prototype searchlight that delivers much more light per watt than typical searchlights, is more pleasing to the eye, can be easily and environmentally built using off the shelf parts and materials, some being used in an exciting new way. My basic only 1,200 watt HMI technology searchlight built last few years,
As of the early 21st century, there have been no new breakthroughs in the manners of propulsion for aerospace craft. Our generation has suffered this lack of breakthrough. Today we use fossil fuels and rocket propulsions to move around. What is needed is a paradigm shift in propulsion technology. Newtonian Law states gravity is an attractive force,
An inexpensive standalone intelligent device that can take on many avatars.
The device consists of a depth and motion sensing set of cameras and a powerful processor. Combined with proprietary software the system can be used as an interface between users and equipment and machinery.
The system can recognise forms, identify and process very minute gestures, movements, facial expressions,
Purpose:
Present commuters often does frequent change in gears,clutching because of this much of the fuel is lost without any useful output.
System Design:
The method uses locking arrangement of fuel just entering before the cylinder during the time of clutching.The system cannot be applied to the vehicle at neutral as there is a chance of engine going dead.
A design of a special differential light amplifier has been designed to detect direct light and filter out the reflected light from the sky. The primary function is to orientate a solar collector to face the Sun, with AZIMUTHIAL tracking of 270 Deg and ALTITUDINAL 90 Deg .
This is a method of employing a 10+" flexible embedded light-emitting alphanumeric display in conjunction with standard night-sensitive security cameras or portable standard issue FLIR equipment to verify the identify of proper authority on individuals from a distance.
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