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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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Of the five senses - sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell - the first two have been extensively exploited by the electronics industry. With a camcorder/smartphone camera we can record any thing that we see/hear. However the remaining three senses are somewhat enigmatic. This effort takes a jab at one of them, specifically smell.
SueChef is the first fully automated, start-to-finish, meal preparation solution and smart kitchen ecosystem. The SueChef itself, a multi-meal cold food storage and oven combination, removes the human element from cooking (and even the premises) by taking food from cold storage and putting it in the oven. 
Holographic teleportation is possible. During COVID-19 times, a company based in Houston, Texas, developed holographic teleportation, or holoportation for short, to facilitate telework.
Aexa Aerospace is a contractor for NASA and the creator of the Holowizard, which is an augmented-reality application to support real-time operations.
During the demonstration, Aexa Aerospace CEO Fernando De La Peña Llaca,
Solute ion linear alignment (SILA) generates energy from repulsion forces between like-charged ions that are accumulated in the capacitive deionization process (CDI).
Repulsion forces are based on Coulomb's Law and the electrostatic fields that are continuously radiating from the ions.
The Electric Force Example and the Light Bulbs provide a very dramatic illustration.
A picture of the assembly, without parts, is stored in a database, along with a mask showing the location of each part (e.g. a screw or cable) to be installed.
A laser pico projector and a camera points at the assembly.
The device is a fundamentally new type of mechanical gyroscope and can be used in various applications, including for the remote destruction of viral envelopes by a resonant method using artificially created variable long-range entropic forces.
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Virus envelopes have their own vibrational frequency, and theoretically, they can be destroyed by the external influence of the resonant frequency. However,
ABSTRACT. The result of this work is to get an idea of the technical implementation of the idea of a wheel platform with an articulated frame and an independent suspension system that has the ability to simultaneously fit into sharp turns and overcome significant surface irregularities.
KEYWORDS: mechanism swivel antiparallelogramm, antiparallelogramm, mechanism Bennett.
The industrial strength "lift" capabilities complemented by advanced accelerometer/gyroscope technology is the driving force of this technology.
A new process introduced by the Rice University lab of chemist James Tour can turn bulk quantities of just about any carbon source into valuable graphene flakes. The process is quick and cheap; Tour said the “flash graphene” technique can convert a ton of coal,
The Trunk Fence puts a stop to runaway groceries and other objects in the back of your vehicle. The Trunk Fence is designed to eliminate the movement of almost anything when you go around corners or stop suddenly. The Trunk Fence expands and conforms to capture whatever shape cargo you might have. The more the cargo weighs,
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