Congratulations to Our 2025 Grand Prize and First Place Winners!
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.
Help build a better tomorrow
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.
Read About All the 2024 Winning Inventions
Special Report spotlights the eight amazing winners in 2024 as well as honorable mentions in each category, plus the top ten most popular entries as voted by our community.
Click here to read moreA ‘Create the Future’ Winner Featured on ‘Here’s an Idea’
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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"Empowering Communities Through Solar Innovation: Introducing Gangaajal, the Solar-Powered Water Purifier"
Access to clean drinking water is a fundamental human right, yet millions around the world lack this basic necessity. In India, water-related diseases pose a significant health risk, particularly in rural areas where access to clean water is limited. Recognizing this pressing issue,
Innovative Solution for Sustainable Agriculture in Arid and Saline Regions
In response to global challenges such as climate change, extreme weather, and geopolitical crises like the Russia-Ukraine conflict, agricultural stress is on the rise. The Gulf region, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), faces significant water and food scarcity issues,
Technical Summary of the Utility Model: Device for Reusable Packaging and Adjustable Cushioning Components
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This utility model describes an innovative device designed to enable the repeated use of common packaging materials used in e-commerce, such as boxes, envelopes, and bags. The device is a multi-seal booklet that adheres to the packaging's closure flap,
Nuclear waste disposal has had a direct impact on the United States desire/ability to move forward w/ Nuclear Power. Geothermal Power plant opportunities have been hindered by geological limited areas of availability. There are current projects to create disposal zones of Nuclear waste using canisters loaded and sealed in a well bore into a subsurface geologic column far underground.
The widespread use of PVC (polyvinyl chloride) false ceilings poses significant environmental and health challenges. PVC is a synthetic plastic polymer, the production and disposal of which have severe ecological consequences.
Deep sea pressures ( minimum 27 bar or 270 m deep ) were utilized to produce fresh ( not salty ) water bu using the existing membrane system . Theoretically the pump pressure ( required energy ) to put into a steady flow operation is near to 27 bar or over head pressure of the sea water.
Over 1,000,000 people are killed each year during urban disasters. 2,500,000 people will be permanently disabled or displaced, and the affected communities will take 20 to 30 years to recover and billions of dollars in economic losses. If we can reduce the initial response by one day we can reduce the overall recovery by 3 years.
Over 1,000,000 people are killed each year during urban disasters. 2,500,000 people will be permanently disabled or displaced, and the affected communities will take 20 to 30 years to recover and billions of dollars in economic losses. If we can reduce the initial response by one day we can reduce the overall recovery by 3 years.
OBI-USA/OBI-México developed a NEW TRANSFORMATIONAL commercial metallic dental implant coated with a unique best biocompatible (because made of Carbon atoms-element of life in human DNA, cells, molecules) / body fluids corrosion resistant / LOW-COST production Ultrananocrystalline Diamond (UNCD) coating. OBI-USA/OBI-México are the only companies worldwide developing UNCD-coated medical implants,
ShotHawk is the 1st First Responder to an active shooter situation since the active shooter response system works before first responders arrive on scene to contain an active assailant. System activation can be done through the manual pulling of a handle like a traditional fire alarm. Following the activation of the system,
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