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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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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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2012
Tuberculosis kills thousands of people every year. My submission would cut down the six month long treatment time considerably. Briefly, adding oral doses of vitamins D3; Calcium Ascorbate. Magnesium Ascorbate and Baking Soda or Sodium Bicarbonate would significantly improve recovery time by boosting the patient's immune system. Also,
Introduces a new era of designer fixtures, where designer has a more productive meaning, where value is measured in performance of task and that translates to social and economic benefits not always exhibited by design for artistic reason.
Our earplug simply keeps water from coming in contact with the ear canal and eardrum; it does not keep the water and pressure out of the ear canal.
The CW-RUNABOUT is my attempt at a VTOL PAV concept that would hopefully be cheap to produce and as easy to controll as posible while having as few components as possible.
This design is inspired by Texas-born Vincent Justus Burnelli. Early wind tunnel and flight testing of this design showed superiority in most areas compared to the tube and wing design. With new materials and design available today,
Joe Tackett is the inventor and U.S. Patent holder of the Battle Stations concept and has been developing it since 2007.
Production is expected to begin in July, 2012.
Battle Stations is an Aerobics-based, computer automated, Martial Arts training device.
Please see the illustrations before proceeding.
This invention relates to search engines. Search engines use a lot of the available broadband radio spectrum, which contributes to sluggish performance and other system troubles. An overload of the communications system can have grave consequences: computer freezes and crashes at every level including our defense network,
Thin Film Photovoltaic Dynamic Wind Turbine Blade
Innovation
The innovation consists of wind turbine blades that dynamically optomize peak performance of a wind turbine with the use of thin film photovoltaic technologies, solar energy and a computer controlled analysis program of wind conditions.
A novel, simple and miniature "Adhesive Tape Dispenser“ consisting of a 4 cm cutter plate x width of a tape, flexibly mounted on a tape roll, for peeling at one end and dispensing the tape by cutting from another end.
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