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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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A new class of heavily cold rolled and thermally processed (HCR-TP) sheet metals is proposed as a viable low cost alternative to producing light weight vehicles for the transportation industry. Presently,
I made a discovery in the mechanics and surfaces of connections that will make threaded parts stronger, more durable and safer. While the details are in the “Basic Principals of the Wave Thread” article at www.wavethread.com, the basic concept of the wave thread is a collection of circles.
Description: Read@Night® Children’s Book Light
Read@Night is a special Children’s Book Light (patent) that was founded by a dream of loving to read at night. The dream was to design a special children’s book light that is fun, innovative and unique that will promote the joy of reading.
Mobile Amputee Prosthetic Limb Management is a mobile software application that creates a mathematical model for individual and populations of amputees so that a better prosthetic limb fit can be achieved.
The Beam Irradiance on Target System (BITS) is a high energy laser (HEL) sensor array that directly measures the beam irradiance profile of HEL weapons.
Energy Intelligence aims to create a novel road-based energy-harvesting system capable of generating over 100kW of cheap, clean distributed power onsite at industrial facilities with regular heavy-duty traffic.
It is known that the analysis of the water quality is long time procedure and requires expensive analytical equipment.
SkyAuto:
SkyAuto will be a two-seater VTOL [Vertical Take Off &Landing Aircraft]. Having three small jet engines mounted at three sides of the VTOL, it will fly using "auto-pilot." My aim is to make it for defense transportation with enhanced security and advanced navigation.
Unsecured loads are an everyday hazard and danger to all, drivers, passengers, motorist, motorcyclist on the road, and our environment. The problem is that unsecured loads cause 440 fatalities,
I have created a solar spinning top for wind turbines and other applications. The solar photovoltaic cells rotate at high RPM's on domes and conical shapes while providing power to bicycles, cars, segways, wheelchairs, skateboards, prosthetics, airplanes, frisbees, and many other agendas.
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