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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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Problem:
Counterfeit ICs used in critical systems are a threat to safety and security. It is difficult to identify counterfeit ICs quickly or accurately.
Solution:
Using NDT Ultrasonic Resonance Testing methods, characteristic ultrasonic spectra signatures would be made of known 'good' ICs,
The PIN Access Biologic-Biometrics Snapshot Profile is a global healthcare intervention system for improving the efficiency and quality of healthcare, saving lives, time and money, eliminating or reducing decades of fear and risk a doctor or local person or foreigner in any location worldwide, routinely living,
Virtual Assault Gaming System is a, patent pending, PC based Arcade Machine. It is compatible with most major gaming titles and numerous online games that are first person shooter games such as Medal of Honor, Doom, Black Ops, Combat Arms, etc.
Almost all communication systems become inoperable during and after natural calamities like earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, cyclones etc. Often it takes months to at least restore a fraction of it. If they are restored as soon as possible many lives can be saved and losses reduced. In the present scenario,
This project is about the conversion of Industrial waste into a useful product-The Plasto-Ash brick. Our township Neyveli has a public sector industry, Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited. This industry has two Thermal Power Stations.
The attempts to capture Solar Energy have resulted in a large number of devices to obtain this.
We all know that in today’s time everyone is struggling for fuel, and governments of every country is giving instruction to save fuel. To save fuel I am displaying a design of A C generator which will run without fuel.
DENSITY AND PRIORITY BASED TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM USING COMPUTER VISION IN ARM PROCESSOR
Most of the traffic control system in developing countries are works based on fixed time concept, the time for Green/Red signals are previously set on the basis of expected traffic densities.
Imagine a world without any vehicular accident and all vehicles have an auto-pilot capability by means of road directional guided sensor. My idea and design concept are focused on developing new road reflector with built-in sonar sensor that can transmit and/or receive data.
The Discrete Imbiber is a handheld portable battery powered oral suction instrument and tool for improving and increasing quality of life in the workplace, at home, during leisure time, and while traveling. Recently,
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