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Special Report spotlights the eight top entries in 2023 as well as past winners whose ideas are now in the market, making a difference in the world.
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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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The Sliding Knife Guard is a protective cover for any sharp knife. Unlike any other knife guard it allows you to cut food with the guard on unless it is in the lock position.
EnerSysNet is developing self-contained, mobile woody biomass to liquid fuel conversion systems to produce fuel oil, diesel and gasoline-type hydrocarbons from logging and wood product residues.
This is a prop speed reduction gearbox I designed and built for an LS1 V8 engine. I needed to reduce the nose weight to move the aircraft's CG back. I was also motivated to reduce the overall powerplant weight,
By 2017, if current industrialization and population growth exponential trends continue, the CO2 concentration will reach 450 ppm; this will cause the southern ocean, where large upwellings of deep ocean currents with high concentrations of CO2 will offgas CO2 to the atmosphere, and the acidity there could be extreme,
POLMAP is an airship that allows humans to observe the (open) sea. The first idea (but POLMAP can be used for scientific research also) for designing POLMAP is because we have no way to survey the ships that transfer the gazole on the sea.
This is another alternate way of generating power using wind energy. This is similar to trees which oscillate during windy conditions. The oscillating motion is used to generate the power.
The Device consist of a flexible tower and rotating blade.
• What problem does your design idea solve?
This design reduces the response time to an airplane accident by the airport’s ARFF vehicles. Reducing response time is the best way to improve the ability to quickly extinguish a postcrash fire.
• What are the potential benefits?
The current plan to remove Incandescent Lamps from the worldwide marketplace leaves few alternatives. The most expensive, LEDs, and the most common, Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs), and its associated problems: emission efficiency, slow to start, short life, unacceptable colors, and potential Mercury Contamination.
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