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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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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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Interactive SmartWindows for Autonomous Vehicles with Digital Display capabilities. Transparent OLED TECHNOLOGIES with touchscreen, face recognition, temperature control, Augmented reality, voice recognition, the future of how we look out transportation windows will change forever! For military vehicles and aircraft, for private or public transportation vehicles like trains, buses, and airplanes...
This is an electric tricycle, unlike the traditional tricycle we have in Africa which uses petrol. This is a conceptual design of a modern tricycle that will bring about ease and comfort of transportation in Africa and other nations that use tricycle as a means of transportation. No fuel, no noise.
Propellers have moved motorized water craft ever since they were invented but a simplified way of moving on the surface of the water would make electric craft quieter and more efficient.
A simple chain mechanism with paddles attached would get maximum propulsion when interacting with the water, with minimal energy used similar to how ducks swim.
Built sturdy enough,
My submission is for a carbon neutral commercial aircraft propulsion. The propeller aircraft gave way to the jet mainly due to the large speed difference between the two. Propellers became inefficient at higher speeds such as Mach .8 and the available piston engine technology of the 50’s had insufficient power, and were bulky and heavy.
Perovskite photovoltaic technologies have opened new horizons for low-cost solar cells. To leverage laboratory-scale cells to modules, challenges in creating scalable fabrications, improving the high device yield, and extending the operational lifetimes need to be carefully addressed. Here, we introduce sulfolane in the perovskite precursor that can address the above-mentioned challenges. With the new precursor,
This concept provides a method whereby identical dual radial gap motor modules can be joined together in a linear assembly for the purpose of incrementally increasing or decreasing the total power output available to perform a particular task.
Clock A as in the figure above is quantum mechanically enlarged to clock B along direction XZ in space and time. Light or radiation from B travels with the loss of time due to motion in free space and focused by magnifying glass on say head of person P.
Innovation: DOWSIL™ TC-5550 is a novel Thermal Interface Material (TIM) that manages heat in mission-critical microprocessors, enabling more compact designs, longer device lifetimes, faster speeds, and fewer catastrophic failures. The future will be defined by high power microprocessors for advances in Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, 5G communications and cloud computing. These advances across smart homes,
The main objective is to develop a FMS lateral navigation system 's prototype using webapps technologies. The application layer responsible for the LNAV logic and all communication interface has in its scope the use of microservices allied to the JavaScript programming language with the ES6 standard in its standalone execution environment, NodeJS.
The perception of our immediate physical environment plays a key role in the human experience. Awareness of our surroundings can be considered a primary survival sense second only to hearing and sight and, in many ways, opens a doorway to be human.
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