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.
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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.
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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TriboDyn® TRI-EX2 Motor Oils are a patented ceramic lubricant that is attracted to areas of heat & friction. As pressures increase with RPM or load, the special TRI-EX2 lubricants, combined with the active “Ceramic Coating Technology” in the oil, form a self-lubricating “Ceramic Film” in high load & heat areas,
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My concept deals with the crushing and grinding of food or bio waste using an anticipated machine at its place. The manually operated or mechanized machine will have two stages. The first stage will involve crushing/grinding biowaste into small particles for two minutes. In the second stage,
What is μLauncher
μLauncher is a small reusable suborbital vehicle. It will lift a 3U CubeSat payload at 150 km altitude and return it safely to the launch pad. It will operate at modest direct and associated per-flight costs. To achieve such an ambitious goal, μLauncher will merge innovatively proven technologies and use off-the-shelf components.
For safety critical airborne systems, the minimum reliability requirements are of the order of one allowable failure in one million flight hours. This implies that almost two thirds of cost and time for design and development is devoted to complying with certification requirements of the aviation regulatory authorities. The recommended design practices have two distinct categories.
This invention relates to a modified firefighter truck, in which a telescoping ladder has been repurposed with multiple spinning wheels to launch a shell consisting of a fire retardant powder with an explosive core. Set to detonate right on top of the fire, it can fire 2 shells every 3 seconds.
The over-application of chemical-based toxic pesticides and insecticides has caused great health concerns for consumers. Some sources claim around 385 million cases of UAPP (Unintentional Acute Pesticide Poisoning) occur annually worldwide including around 11,000 fatalities, which is based on a worldwide farming population of approximately 860 million.
Sweeping is often a hassle especially when dustpans don’t scoop up all the debris leaving unpolished floors. Traditional vacuums are bulky and can scratch floors. And the new autonomous vacuums, such as Roomba, are great but time consuming, do not climb up stairs, and are limited by the size of the debris they can pick up.
In today’s generation, having a camera for observation is not important to observe and recognize it but use it for more realistic view to observe is important now. Our projects aim is that this system will help us to see every corner of the area where our camera is mounted.
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In the realm of battery technology, thermal management plays a critical role in ensuring the safety and efficient operation of energy storage systems. To address the pressing need for improved thermal management solutions, a novel material has been prepared - an anisotropic thermal material with unique properties.
DOWSIL™ TC-6032 Thermally conductive encapsulant affects manufacturing key parts of FCEV and BEV and acceleration of new clean energy era by providing excellent process-ability and productivity improvement with higher thermal conductivity around 3.0 W/m·K and lower viscosity around 6,500 mPa·s, which is almost the lowest in similar product groups thanks to DOW’s filler combination and treating technology.
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