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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 amazing winners in 2024 as well as honorable mentions in each category, plus the top ten most popular entries as voted by our community.
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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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Introducing LampFive:
LampFive is a new LED replacement bulb for incandescent lamps. Utilizing a light guide to create omni-directional light, LampFive replicates the size and shape of an Edison-style socket bulb.
Ready to use in any residential or commercial A-19 socket, LampFive offers both a vintage style and modern form bulb.
The Strike Finder TOUCH has a programmable touch-screen interface that features 5 capabilities in one device. One of the most exciting features is the ability to trigger time lapse based on an external event such as lightning, motion and sound. When it detects high-speed flash events (such as lightning or fireworks), a tripped laser beam, movement,
Salter’s Duck is a wave energy conversion device invented by Dr. Stephen Salter in 1974 at the University of Edinburgh. The device is unique among wave energy conversion systems in that it uses both the vertical and horizontal motion of the wave. It has a pear shaped cross section that “nods,” rotates around its center,
ACES
J & M: Technical and marketing information relating to J & M’s newly developed electrolytic, magnet ACES device. ACES stands for Aortic Calcification Elimination System. J & M Associates has technical knowledge in engineering, and new materials for various power supplies and antenna applications, which would facilitate safely dissolving calcification deposits in the human body by noninvasive means.
These mini-generator creates electricity by the proven method of magnetic induction. It also has a back up solar component that sustains the electric output. In NYC alone there are trillions of tons of force waiting to be converted into electricity daily!
All parts are insulated from weather and the magnetic field is arranged and shielded from outside influence.
Meet Modern Sprout, the cutting edge of countertop cultivation. Our stylish, self-sustaining indoor windowsill planters are outfitted with a top-feed hydroponic system that automatically waters and feeds plants, making them perfect for space conscious city dwellers, absent-minded gardeners and armchair agrarians.
We believe that hydroponics is the future of horticulture.
No problem has ever rounded global leaders together quite like the global energy crisis. Oil geologists and analysts have forecast the impending global Peak Oil, a point at which the maximum rate of petroleum extraction is reached, followed by irreversible decline. To date, 50 countries have already surpassed the point of no return.
The Mosolver - a combined Motor and Resolver - senses position by adding a patented passive sensing circuit to the interior of the existing motor magnetic structure. The ripple current from the existing motor PWM drive provides the flux variation that allows this sensor to continue operation even when the motor is stationary.
Time Capsule to Mars (TCTM), an Explore Mars project, is the world’s first and largest student-led interplanetary mission that will design, launch, and land a time capsule on the surface of Mars. We will make history by connecting humanity’s shared history with our shared destiny.
My aircraft concept is to take a single aircraft platform and turn it into as many different roles as needed by our changing combat and survailence priorities.
The aircraft I have chosen as my concept platform is the ARES type 151, designed by Burt Rutan and built by Scaled Composites,
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