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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.
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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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In normal Scuba device when the tanks are emptied we have to go to land to charge the tank with compressed air which allows less time to be spent underwater.
This Equipment allows more time to be spent in water by charging the tank in the sea itself.
A simple rotary heat engine that uses a small temperature differential to produce hundreds of foot pounds of mechanical torque for direct application or for electrical generation,can be built to operate from a hot spring or simple solar collector as heat source.
Utilizing only simple engineering and thermodynamics,
The system is based in grained particiles made out of expanded polystyrene, polyethylene mixed with magnetized iron particles in powder size This particles have the property that withholds oil in their fibers and stick together when coming close.
The power densities in high altitude winds (4600 m and above) exceeds a 20 kW/m2 seasonal average and this is the highest power density for a large renewable energy resource anywhere on Earth. It exceeds the power densities of sunlight, near surface winds, ocean currents, hydropower, tides, geothermal,
A jackknife occurs when a truck and the trailer it is carrying, begin sliding in a rotating motion with respect to one another as the tractor and trailer fold up against one another. Although jackknifes occur most often on slippery roads,
This design consists of the following elements: 1. water holding system 2. a turbine 3. water pumping system.
Water holding system consists of two pits and an interconnecting tub of predetermined dimensions.
Safety Shoes in industry are commonplace. However, children could benefit from a special style of safety shoes. We propose a safety shoe that incorporates a small electronics package in the shoe. The insole of the shoe is removable to expose a hollowed out compartment for a small electronics package.
The Battery Boss technology is a patented method for assurance a smoke detector or other critical battery powered device has a functioning battery. NFPA statistics indicates over one third of all installed smoke detectors are inoperative due to failed or missing batteries. Failed batteries produce lost lives every day!
TDP addresses an opportunity in the fast growing and large niche of the glass industry – the decorative glass segment. TDP is a new product for the modern decorative glass industry. The product is more durable, aesthetically attractive,
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