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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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Cancer is the second biggest killer in the world after cardiovascular disease, and is projected to overtake it in the near future. Just in the US, every year there are 140k new cases and 49k deaths of colorectal cancer, and 221k new cases and 157k deaths of lung cancer.
Cancer mutations are very important in the treatment of cancer,
The electrocardiograph machine has not changed significantly over the past 50 years. In this new type of display, the data is processed for pattern recognition that results in the ability to quickly ascertain some of the heart actions. The heart signals are characterized so that defective ion channels can be determined simply by observation.
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The PocketHound™ Cell Phone Detector is Berkeley's Varitronics Systems' highly sensitive yet most easily concealed cell phone detector on the market. The PocketHound was primarily designed for College Professors to detect and locate students using their mobile phones to cheat on exams.
INNOVATION:
The receiver is specifically tuned to the RF signature of common cell phones (both U.S. &
Since we still drive our cars on sunny days, we have all run into the problem of poorly designed and/or functioning sun visors incapable of blocking out the sun while still allowing us to see street lights, signs, etc.
The eSunShield design would alleviate this problem by automatically blocking out just the sun.
Any good machine design must both start at the top with high-level concepts and then immediately restart at the bottom. Good designs will eventually meet themselves in the middle. Today, the very pinnacle of our machine designs, the defining relationship between man and machine, is one of master-slave.
India and other developing economies continue to face crippling hunger and poverty rates. Despite the consistent production of agricultural products, the post-harvest loss rate for fruits and vegetables hovers around 40% undermining the ability of local farmers to feed their countrymen and develop exports.
My innovation is simple: to keep the city clean. Our present road wastebin is filled with waste. Municipal cleans every day but it smells outside the surroundings, shows dirty city area. Infants and the elderly get bad health as lots of diseases spread.
Whatever waste goes inside it will go underground.
Today vehicle parking space is creating problem for our cities. There are different types of vehicles -- 2 wheeler, 3 wheeler, 4 wheeler, heavy vehicle like tempo, bus, truck, etc.
The use of vacuum as a barrier to heat flow, in just about any thing but thermos bottles, is curiously nonexistent.
Buildings, windows, water heaters, refrigerators, ice chests, etc. are viable candidates.
Some of these lend themselves to both passive and dynamically held vacuum insulation.
Passive vs Dynamic
Passive is a void that can maintain a vacuum indefinitely,
The future of air transportation is all about protecting the environment and responding to increasing energy costs in a balanced way. In the future, we will need airplanes that are quieter and more fuel efficient and we need to introduce these new technologies without impairing the convenience, safety and security of commercial air transportation.
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