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Since Tech Briefs magazine launched the Create the Future Design contest in 2002 to recognize and reward engineering innovation, over 15,000 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 today.
Read About All the 2024 Winning Inventions
Special Report spotlights the eight amazing winners in 2024 as well as honorable mentions in each category, plus the top ten most popular entries as voted by our community.
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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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Traditional ceramics, while offering exceptional hardness and durability, are inherently brittle, limiting their use in applications requiring both flexibility and impact resistance. This study investigates the mechanical performance of soft, multilayered ceramics, focusing on how hexagonal tile size, adhesive interlayer thickness, and layer configuration influence flexural compliance, penetration resistance, and energy absorption.
Zeolites and Metakaolin are part of the ceramic materials. These structures are metal oxides, when using zeolite modified with combination with Metakaolin that is modified, for leather tanning you choose for a heavy metal free and chrome free metal tannage.
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GROWING lasers on silicon has eluded scientists for decades and has been referred to as the Holy Grail of photonics [1]. The fundamental issue preventing the integration of III-V based laser diodes on silicon (or other) substrates is the lattice mismatch between the material systems.
Papers discussing artificial ocean cooling to weaken tropical cyclones are published. Cooling sea surface temperatures by 2.5ºC would weaken and reduce the damage of a tropical cyclone but lack a practical method. This is a cost and logistic capable autonomous solution.
The ocean thermocline provides a source of cold water. Storm waves provide energy.
Across the globe, people with disabilities—particularly those in underserved and climate-stricken regions—are too often excluded from the mainstream of technological innovation. When catastrophic floods struck southern Brazil, children with disabilities faced obstacles at every turn: inaccessible evacuation routes, inadequate rescue protocols, and little support to share their experiences.
The increasing global demand for clean and sustainable energy sources has driven the exploration of innovative technologies. This novel approach to generating renewable electricity by harnessing the force of gravity. The system utilizes a circular arrangement of water-filled chambers equipped with inflatable balloons, employing a unique design to create a weight imbalance that drives rotational motion.
3D printing’s the potential to drive mass customization, reduce waste,
Connector allows high current at high voltage with low to very low resistance in a temporary or permanent connection regardless of remates of connecting in many materials.
Technology allowed projects such as Star Wars to be successful and end the Cold War.
Diffusion welding of materials such as aluminum at room temperature has been demonstrator.
Introduction: NeuroLingua is an AI-powered headband utilizing EEG, neurostimulation, and machine learning to enhance and accelerate language acquisition.
Core Technology
EEG Sensors – Monitor brain activity.
AI Analysis – Detects learning patterns.
Neurostimulation – Boosts memory retention.
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