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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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I have some bad news: every depiction of people in space that you have ever seen, every movie, every SF short story, is complete rubbish! Reality has shot down our dreams.
This problem jumped out at us from new data on radiation safety for humans in space,
At high attitudes there are plenty of winds. My idea is use wind energy. First use is to create addition lifting force. Second use is to charge the battery of a Soaring Surveillance Device.i
Soaring Surveillance Device consists of four main parts:
1) Wing.
2) Vertical axis wind turbine (VAWT).
Cancer is the second biggest killer in the world after cardiovascular disease, and is projected to overtake it in the near future. Just in the US, every year there are 140k new cases and 49k deaths of colorectal cancer, and 221k new cases and 157k deaths of lung cancer.
The electrocardiograph machine has not changed significantly over the past 50 years. In this new type of display, the data is processed for pattern recognition that results in the ability to quickly ascertain some of the heart actions.
OVERVIEW:
The PocketHound™ Cell Phone Detector is Berkeley's Varitronics Systems' highly sensitive yet most easily concealed cell phone detector on the market. The PocketHound was primarily designed for College Professors to detect and locate students using their mobile phones to cheat on exams.
Since we still drive our cars on sunny days, we have all run into the problem of poorly designed and/or functioning sun visors incapable of blocking out the sun while still allowing us to see street lights, signs, etc.
Any good machine design must both start at the top with high-level concepts and then immediately restart at the bottom. Good designs will eventually meet themselves in the middle. Today, the very pinnacle of our machine designs, the defining relationship between man and machine,
India and other developing economies continue to face crippling hunger and poverty rates. Despite the consistent production of agricultural products, the post-harvest loss rate for fruits and vegetables hovers around 40% undermining the ability of local farmers to feed their countrymen and develop exports.
My innovation is simple: to keep the city clean. Our present road wastebin is filled with waste. Municipal cleans every day but it smells outside the surroundings, shows dirty city area. Infants and the elderly get bad health as lots of diseases spread.
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