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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 Exponential Engine is a modification to current piston and valve engine designs which will generate 4x the power for the same displacement current as Otto cycle engine design.The concept replaces crankshafts with our patent pending cam-crank permitting 2 power strokes per drive shaft revolution thus generating 4x the power for the same displacement.
Plastic waste pollution is an increasingly prevalent environmental issue around the world. Many companies produce plastic waste through their manufacturing processes, and remote or resource-limited environments - isolated island populations, natural disaster locations, theaters of war, and more - continuously bring in plastic products that end up as waste..
Water is the most important resource, it connects every aspect of our lives. But due to increased population, deforestation, industrialization the water sources are being contaminated, depleting. Today, 1 in 9 people lack access to safe water.
Our proposed solution is a sustainable system which powers itself,
Get-A-Load-On ©2019
Concept by Balint Szent-Miklosy | keytonyc@aol.com
Illustrations by Nicholas Fischer | email@nicholasfischer
Concept: Pickup trucks will be more aptly named once they actually pick up their load.
This product is designed to ease the physical burdens of loading heavier cargo into the bed of an otherwise standard pickup truck.
Acoustic Transducer Diaphragm - Boxless, Omnidirectional, Full-Range
US patent 7,860,265 Planot® acoustic transducer diaphragm. The most common electromechanical device in the world is the speaker. I have reinvented and vastly improved it. The first Planotary design under development; compact and VastFidelity™.
The Planot diaphragm pivots along its long axis; unlike previous Planots its bearings,
We believe to make cars lighter, the automotive industry needs to replace aluminum with iron. The conventional wisdom says that is crazy.
Why would you replace a low density material with a higher density material? We just spent years and money converting parts from iron to aluminum. We are still working to do that.
The metal additive manufacturing industry is advancing rapidly as a manufacturing process. It is over a $1B market and forecast to be nearly $10B within 8 years. There are massive benefits such as avoiding tooling costs, quicker turn around, and permitting designs of more complicated shapes. The market would likely be even greater except there are several major issues.
SO THAT’S THE CHALLENGE."
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-The integration represents a shield to protect human lungs from deadly industrial emissions.
-Opportunities by developing green technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants, using algae.
This IoT tool has for objective to quantify for a specific period, all the costs involved during the operation and maintenance of on grid streetlights based on LED or conventional technologies.
Absolute, unlimited power generation.
Under the laws of physics, to produce electricity, a magnetic field must be inserted into the wire box.
Movement of the paddle in the vacuum does not stop because it does not have air resistance.
If we move the pendulum through the vacuum to the magnet and wrap the wrap around the pendulum,
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