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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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Intro. Ground breaking AWP Ergonomic Pen intended to eliminate the cramping and discomfort associated with traditional cylindrical pen forms.
Highlight benefit. No other pen on the market addresses the ergonomic deficiencies associated with traditional writing pens like the AWP ergo pen does.
Finger stress reduced.
You will be able to change the color or color design on your car by using a computer in your car. An LCD screen will be on the outside of the car displaying the color/design underneath the safety of plexiglass. You will also be able to display advertisements. Wow! What a thought!
The EG/A (earth gravity/atmosphere) proof of concept designs of ion thrusters. Powered by a 200,000 KV, Van De Graaf electrostatic generator. All thrusters and components are invented, designed and created by me. My primary goal is to design a ion thrust unit design for class room study and demonstration.
Main advantages of dual battery charger in mobile are:
The dual battery mobile charging unit in mobile phones is very useful for the customers to continue using mobile phones when the main battery goes down due to low battery.
Avoiding uninterrupted power supply from the battery will ensure customers to keep using mobile phone.
To create doors, walls, roofs, barriers, security shutters and many other planar surfaces that can span large contiguous areas but may also be stored in a compact stack for transport or architectural needs. (Panels may also be curved for arches or domes etc.)
The individual panels may be made of many types of solid materials, or may be of composite,
Changing of entire water pump for an air cooler with new characteristics:
1. Easy electromotor installing in to casing at product assembly line
2. improving the heat dissipating of electro motor when it used at the new plastic casing.
The FreeD is a hand-held, digitally controlled, milling device that is guided and monitored by a computer while still preserving the craftsperson's freedom to sculpt and carve. The computer will intervene only when the milling bit approaches the planned model. Its interaction is either by slowing down the spindle speed or by drawing back the shaft;
Fossil fuels, in any form, are quite effective in terms of power output. However, they are non-renewable and are getting depleted at an alarming pace due to their usage as the primary source of energy. The world will eventually run out of oil and gas in the near future.
This time stop machine automobile contains the following details. Two electrostatic bearings that are spheres shown in pink. Two pico-lasers, one two stop and one to move, which can be either gamma-ray lasers that utilize dipositronium or a more futuristic pico-laser a constant/variable neutrino laser beam.
The machine I invented uses Ultraviolet light to instantly weld PMMA Plastic Optical Fibers into any flexible material that a hollow point stainless steel needle can penetrate. The CNC machine I commissioned a company to build based on my invention requires an input data file designating the X,
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