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Since Tech Briefs magazine launched the Create the Future Design contest in 2002 to recognize and reward engineering innovation, over 16,000 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 in our 2026 contest.
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Present patent pending innovation provides a quick and convenient method for punching holes through paper and other sheets to be arranged in file.
Hand operated hole punch machines are used to punch holes through the paper sheets or stack of sheets. To keep all the punched sheets filed in a well arranged manner,
We are now farther from the year that humans first landed on the Moon than we are from the year that the maximum number of human beings will be alive on the Earth.
The Power Sink can be a stand alone unit or retro fitted into dams. Can also be fixed in a array.
TruFlavorWare™
INTRODUCTION: TruFlavorWare is a revolutionary, new tabletop flatware that “Simply makes Food taste Better!” It is totally non-metallic, highly organic, eco-friendly and made of a proprietary composite material that has the substantial weight, feel and permanence of quality stainless steel flatware.
TruFlavorWare simply makes food taste better by totally eliminating the three negative,
This method is somewhat similar to a machine gun, in terms of using re-coil method to generate force ( power).
A cylindrical heavy object is placed on the circular track which has pressure points . This heavy mass will be tilted to an angel where it becomes very easy to rotate it with very less force .
The (Fuel-Injected) Pulsed Turbine Rotor Engine Powers “Future” Thrust-Vectoring VTOL Jetcars and more...
Good News! The first practical lightweight jet-powered VTOL "car", "aircraft" is finally within reach. I'm presenting to all of you,
When upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding occurs, an endoscope is passed through the patient’s esophagus and into the GI tract for a visual assessment of the bleeding location. A major problem in endoscopic management of upper GI bleeding is difficulty identifying the bleeding source because it is often obscured by overlying blood and clots.
PURPOSE: The World Health Organization estimates depressive disorder as a serious threat to the health of more than 120 million people worldwide, which affects all ages and both sexes [1].
Grail Engine Technologies corporation has developed a revolutionary two-stroke internal combustion engine (ICE) that achieves high fuel efficiency (100+ mpg) and uses multiple fuel sources (i.e. gasoline, diesel, hydrogen, natural gas propane - electronically controlled on-the-fly)
Two-stroke ICE designs have been in production for generations but are being discontinued due to emissions.
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