Congratulations to Our 2025 Grand Prize and First Place Winners!
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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A Diesel Bleeding Mechanism, is a Simple machine that is used to bleed any Heavy Duty Vehicle HDV, for the purpose of pumping diesel inside the injector to as to start any diesel vehicle for the first time, or as to start e vehicle which diesel has cutting off.
The EnviroCool Hybrid Super Truck is a unique patented solution integrating new and existing technology into a single platform. It quickly upgrades any class 6-8 vehicle to save up to 40% fuel. This results in an immediate drop in toxic emissions and total cost of ownership.
The Global Status Report on Road released by WHO suggests that a staggering 1.35 million road accidents happen worldwide annually. This has forced the governments worldwide to adopt legislation that make it mandatory to have a few ADAS applications in automobiles in order to improve road safety.
In the recent time of the global pandemic, it was observed that the world is incapable of handling pandemic situations like COVID-19. The primary factor which leads to a catastrophic level pandemic is overpopulation (also dense population) & contemporary lifestyle of humanity.
To curb or to avoid such a disaster world has adopted a strategy of “Social Distancing.
This gearbox has a large gear ratio (500), despite its compact size. The first stage is made in the form of a planetary gearbox, and the second in the form of a wave transmission. The device has a fairly good kinematic error, a large output torque,
Concentrated heat loads i.e., very high heat fluxes from electronic components present significant thermal management challenges in defense, space, and commercial applications. Such high heat fluxes increase the temperature of components beyond permissible operational limits.
Brookhaven National Laboratory’
There is rapid development in drone technology nowadays, they are being used in almost every other field. In this, we will be talking about the usage of drones in fish farms.
A fish farming drone can attentively be in charge of fish rearing tanks,
This is a pocket size, rechargeable device with 6 Braille alphabet simulation buttons on top and 4 operations buttons on side. The top buttons are toggle buttons, which keep it state (up or down) when pressed on it. Buttons imitate Braille six-dot letters by 10x increased size. Like, for letter “A” or number “1”,
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