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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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Flexible field effect transistors (FET) reported till date contains polymers like PDMS (Poly-dimethyl siloxane) or PS (Polystyrene) as substrate or gate material. This possess serious limitations in terms of their fabrication procedure, repeatability, bio-degradability, bending and long-term aging response. In this work,
"Bomb Detector" Is Simple And Effective Device That Is Capable Of Detecting Any Explosive Material. It Is Cost Effective, Portable, Reliable And Accurate.
Bomb Detector Is Useful For Security Checking. It Can Be Used To Detect Slightly Big Size Metallic Objects. It Uses A Sensing Coil. This Coil Is Kept Near Metallic Objects For Detection.
Energy is needed whenever and wherever we are regardless of the situation. And now there is.
When catastrophes strike and electricity is unavailable, we need the ability to charge our electronic devices and stay in touch with our loved ones. Regardless if we are out in the wilderness or are members of the military deployed overseas,
Code Authentication Pad is an APP coded Data information programmer-transmitter-receiver satellite and tower-based all-in-one paperless device sensor-based small handheld for personal asset-item.
Innovation dental flosser comprises a head, a housing, a spool, and a tail cap. Dental floss is wound on a spool that is placed inside the housing. A length of floss suspected by a fork on the head is used for flossing teeth. The free end of the floss is clamped by a nut placed around the head.
Traffic Management
Now-a-days, one more fear has been added to everyone's life and that's heavy traffic while say going to office or going back to home. Everyday everyone suffer a lot due to this. There's delay in going office as well as going back home. Everyone is in hurry to reach the destination as early as possible.
The featured design is a new engine kinematics. The mechanism that transforms the reciprocal movement of the pistons into rotation of the output shaft is a cam one.
The main components of the cam mechanism is a tubular 3D cam with a groove engraved onto interior cylindrical surface of the cam.
The Radially Asymmetric Dual Arc (RADA) Profile is a novel geometric configuration for the Elastomer of a Torsional Vibration Damper (TVD) that enhances the TVD’s fatigue-life while simultaneously improving the axial and radial run-outs between the two metallic components utilized therein. The RADA is a subtle geometric change,
A spacial expander created for excessive midrange tones at high volumes coming from amplified speakers in the 10" to 12" diameter. Speakers who's harsh tones emit a deafening directional sound can now be tamed easily without alteration of the actual speaker's tone.
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