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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 Broadhead-Bullet is exactly what the name describes; the combination of both an arrow and a bullet into one firearm projectile that can be used in 12-gauge smoothbore shotguns without significant modification to the firearm. The Broadhead-Bullet is designed to enhance the performance of an arrow shot from the best compound bows in a simple, inexpensive,
Water is essential for human life. Provision for clean water has being more difficult year after year due to shorter rain periods or lack of rain mostly because of global warming. Most places around the world have a relative humidity above 20%, but since the dew point is not reached, it doesn't rain.
We want to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) with our novel product. Our device is a pulse-oximetry based rescue garment worn by an infant on the hand. The device monitors heart rate and blood oxygenation.
Electronic Toric Marker is a medical instrument used in the case of Glaucoma eye disease, which is primarily observed in millions of sugar patients. Toric Marker head places two small lines/dots across pupil for pre-op/intra-op reference marking for alignment purpose.
Describe product idea
My product idea came about one day when I was visiting a friend in a major restaurant chain (Chili’s). I’m one of those people that when in the restroom, I wash my hands and use the paper towel to dry my hands and open the door to exit the laboratory. Well, that day at Chili’s,
The design entry is a 2 liter bottle that would replace the current cylindrically produced soda and liquid bottles that are manufactured and distributed worldwide. The premise is to shorten the recycling chain the bottles go through to be useful again and reduce waste.
The bottle has a square profile with interlocking tabs on all sides.
The brain harmonizer is a coil that might be plugged into several types of pulsed magnetic field generators. The simplest form of brain harmonizer consists of a coil large enough to go around the head and is powered by a blinking LED triggering a MOSFET. A nine volt battery supplies the current.
Today everywhere in the world use of mobile is increasing day by day because communication anywhere in the world is possible only in few seconds. In early days mobiles was used for calling and sending messages but now a mobile phone can do anything which a laptop or computer do.
We have designed a car seat by using Pro/E Software, later used analysis on it using Ansys 14.0. We have done study to Use Suction Pump on Seat Car as an alternative of Seat Belt and Air Bag that works during Accident or Crash in almost every ordinary , luxury car or Performance Car.
A seat belt,
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