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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 Air Conditioned Helmet, (two patents issued), is the first and only practical thermoelectric air conditioned helmet. It uses a special woven air flow structure for the inside of the helmet that conveys the conditioned air all over the inside of the helmet to cool or heat the maximum area of the users head.
Here is a product that improves the efficiency and quality of healthcare.
The novel low volume fluidic interconnect that can be broken and reattached many times without any drips or residual fluid on either side of the interconnect in chemical environments is the "Unisex Magnetic Fluidic Connector".
The novel Unisex Magnetic Fluidic Connector is resistant to specific chemistries,
Here is a product that speeds and improves work, manufacturing, or scientific research processes.
The novel backpressure regulator that opens or "cracks" at low pressures in chemical environments is the "Magnetic Backpressure Regulator."
The novel Magnetic Backpressure Regulator keeps a constant pressure on items upstream of it.
Here is a product that increases quality of life in the workplace, at home, during leisure time, or while traveling.
The proposed novel affordable dual purpose, interior, self-contained, off-grid lighting device is the "Magnetically Mounted Disc-Shaped Light Diffuser," which is an upgrade of the existing model.
ROAD CONSTRUCTION...... ROAD CONSTRUCTION..... ROAD CONSTRUCTION....
Do these words frustrate you? It frustrates all of us because ROAD CONSTRUCTION means traffic blockage and waste of time, gas and money.
Problem:
During road construction one lane is closed and its traffic has to merge with the other open lane. This causes long traffic blockages and traffic moving inch by inch.
Part of the increasing medical costs we see comes from the need for diagnosis via either a doctor's visit or, in the case of poorer people, a visit to the emergency room. Often, perhaps 60% of the time, the condition is trivial.
The Diagnostic Kiosk uses a diagnostic plate preloaded with illness specific reagents,
By "Merging Waves" together to create "Electromagnetic Molds"
so that electrons and positrons (holes) hold into certain configurations that would allow Quantum fluid like logical control of atoms and molecules and particles, allowing a more precise production of sensors and electronic circuits.
In Ocean Algal Afforestation (OAA), a macro-algae forest (such as kelp, but any biomass will work) is grown on the ocean surface. Carefully managed harvesting allows the forest to grow to support a complete natural ecosystem with diverse and edible sea life.
Concept: With the world population at 6.9 billion it is physically and financially impossible for everyone to visit the great wonders of the world. Many of these wonders are being preserved in National Parks in countries around the world. Some of these countries lack the resources to properly protect and maintain their National Parks.
On a typical aircraft wing, a surface that rises from the top surface to help with laminar flow, and depending on the speed, it may eliminate or reduce the sonic boom by creating a secondary shock wave that would cancel out the primary shock wave before it reaches the ground. This would be on each wing top,
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