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Imersiv, a breakthrough technology that improves audio performance by 100X compared to today’s very best audio equipment for applications ranging from sound engineering to space missions to medical imaging, was named the $25,000 grand prize winner at a live finalist round held November 7 in New York. Click here for the full list of winners. Also see the Top 100 highest scoring entries. Special thanks to our esteemed panel of judges.
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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 opening March 1.
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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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The future, as we see it, is powered by the Sun.
From sub-kilowatt Personal Power to multi-Gigawatt solar grid arrays, PNGinc has beaten coal pricing with a pressurized gas turbogenerator that can roll back carbon emissions & cut end user pricing to 10 cents per kilowatt-hour worldwide.
Short description of the invention:
This is a device that is strapped to the arm of a patient waiting in the clinic’s waiting room. This device will send Heart Rate; Ambulatory Blood Pressure; Blood Analyzer and Glucose data through a Blue Tooth (Class 2 having the 10 to 30 meter range) communication system or a localized data transmission system.
A directional electronic digital compass IC (or other electronic compass), video camera, microphone, and earphone, signaling through a high bandwidth transceiver built within (or attached to) an ordinary hat, glasses, or earworn configuration enables the wearer to perform many patentably distinct useful functions.
Washer / Dryer combo- Family Friendly Edition was inspired from my own life experiences dealing with family members that were pregnant and or suffering of back pain due to injury.
- This unit will be capable of storing six months to a year supply of detergent and softener, equipped with storage tank and smart dispensing mechanism.
Note: I am not a scientist and not even an automobile or mechanical engineer. These are some of the ideas that have been lingering in my mind for a long time and I don’t even know if they are technically feasible. If these can generate some interests in the experts of relevant fields, my goal is accomplished.
The Gen-X Newspaper
Background:
Developments, across most of the urban world.
1.Printed Newspapers are losing money,
2.Losing out to various electronic formats,
AIR CONTROL SYSTEM FOR IMPROVED VEHICLE ECONOMY
Last year I attempted to enter the ‘X-Prize for a 100 MPG Vehicle contest. I own a Toyota 2005 Prius and have 159,000 miles so far. I love this car. I withdrew from the contest because I could not get 75 MPG after testing 19 or so ideas.
Control system software testing is done to determine if a program will correctly meet its specifications and not perform unintended functions. For machinery OEMs, large portions of the software testing process are completed during machine commissioning. New machinery is often a multi-vendor effort between the machine builder and other machinery vendors or electric drive suppliers.
All people with epilepsy may not be able to use their cars because in a crisis, with loss of consciousness, can cause serious accidents.
Extensive studies of neurological signals of patients with epilepsy have shown that several minutes before a seizure, the brain sends warning signals recognizable by an analysis feature.
Garrow Aircraft LLC released in 2008 its unique and innovative aircraft design, called the Verticopter®, literally “Vertical Wing”, which is optimized for niche markets such as Aerial Surveillance, Reconnaissance, Border Patrol, News Coverage and VIP Transport.
The Verticopter® is a new convertiplane that is highly scalable from toys, to drones,
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