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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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This design presents a method for containing oil from a subsea oil blowout. An apparatus constructed from this design will mitigate the spread of oil slicks from subsea oil blowouts, with the benefit of allowing oil exploration to proceed with diminished risk of environmental damage.
Transforms your existing smartphone into a true videophone, solving the "opposing camera and display" problem, allowing simultaneous viewing and transmission of relevant video -- the fundamental requirement of videophones.
The potential benefits are having video chat and conferencing for the masses; accessibility to remote, mobile locations on demand rather than limited to reserved conference rooms.
The Solar Forge is comprised of a large parabola section reflector, a carriage, and a target. The parabola concentrates sunlight, the carriage allows the parabola to track the sun, and the target makes the resulting heat available for a practical purpose. The Solar Forge concentrates enough power to be useful for small commercial processes in sunny climes,
The portable single-axis solar tracker is designed to track the motion of the sun across the horizon to improve the efficiency of the users solar powered equipment. This device contains many features that are generally found on more expensive solar tracking systems but can easily be implemented at a fraction of the cost.
The Energy Information Administration of the US Department of Energy reported the electrical consumption of the US in 2001 as 1,140 billion kilo-watts/hr.
16% of the reported usage is air-conditioning and refrigeration or 182.4 billion Kw/hr.
An article in the Refrigeration News reported that an estimated 30% of serviced AC was improperly charged or installed.
This rotary kiln pyrolysis technology with indirect heated rotary kilns is a long time experienced technology for calcination and mixed waste disposal.
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In today’s fast developing world,the global warming phenomenon is the one that is receiving a turbo charge more than everything else. This explores a possible way of designing an environmentally friendly cooling device that utilizes one of the most abundant natural resource.
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The proposed air conditioning (heating/cooling) device is the simplest of any such device in existance today.
Combustion normally occurs in common reciprocating-piston, internal combustion engines when the piston reaches the highest point in the cylinder. At that point, however, the piston’s connecting-rod is nearly vertically-aligned with the cylinder and very little of the large force acting downward on the piston-crown immediately after ignition actually works to rotate the crankshaft.
A National Pocket Radiation Detection System
There is an elegantly simple deterrent to national radiation threats such as nuclear and dirty bombs. All it requires is that all credit card companies print their cards on back of radiation like badges.
Given the continual improvement in gas appliance efficiencies, it is surprising that commonly available tea kettles have efficiencies as low as 40% when used on a gas range. This innovative “center flue” kettle is specifically designed for gas cook tops and is based upon the design principles used in modern gas water heaters,
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