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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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Exhaust gas from any IC Engine of automobiles is cooled and then using a battery operated mini compressor is passed through a series of chemical solvents housed in FRP Chambers. Suitable solvents in different chambers remove different pollutants such as oxides of carbon including carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and oxides of sulphur.
When the wind blows at 10mph it has eight times as much energy as at 5mph. At 10mph, traditional wind generators generate approximately twice as much as at 5mph. There is a lot of energy in the wind that is not utilized.
This generator (patent pending) consists of a hemispheric stator and a rotor with a number of hinged arms.
Phantom Power, nominally +12 to +48 Volts DC,
is used to power Condenser Microphones.
The "Phantom" aspect refers to the presence of the voltage
on both signal pins (2 & 3, with pin 1 the ground reference) of the balanced line pair of the typical 3 pin XLR-style microphone connector.
Dynamic microphones can tolerate the phantom power,
Non-transparent vertical posts on each side of the front windshield of automobiles,and on each side of the rear window of automobiles, obstruct the view of drivers when going forward and when backing up.
Traditional electric guitars use electromagnetic devices located under the strings to convert string vibrations into voltage. The steel guitar strings modulate the magnetic field associated with the electromagnetic transducers convert the vibrations into a voltage. Though this design works well and is the most popular choice among musicians, it has several drawbacks,
Most residential buildings in the United States dispose of the waste water without any method for heat recovery. While controlling building heat losses through better insulated structures is part of standard construction, less is done to prevent energy loss through drainage plumbing. The U.
The Camera Aided Parking System was conceived to help drivers find free parking places on any parking lot as fast as possible.
Finding a free place to park your car can be a tedious task. This is true especially during shopping seasons such as Christmas. The problem is also common on business buildings parking lots that have several floors.
Spacecoast Plasma & High energy Electrostatics Research & Engineering Laboratory (SPHERELAV
* SPHERELAB is being organized to attract new public and private funding to Central Florida by establishing a strong, innovative Plasma Science & Technology Program
* Plasma Research & Development has funding priority in Washington
* This program will develop 'Signature Instruments' to attract Faculty,
We store food materials in Refrigerators and Freezers to prevent them from going bad prematurely.
Reducing the total number of hours of operation of the refrigeration units reduces the consumption of electrical energy.
During the winter months, in some parts of the word, the temperature falls below the freezing point. In these parts of the world,
New Jersey has instituted a law in which vehicles must have snow and ice removed from the hood, roof, and truck areas. This law is extremely important to all motorists driving in winter weather conditions where snow or ice can fall from one vehicle and onto another causing damage to vehicles and/or loss of visibility leading to serious accidents.
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