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.
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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.
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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 EXPO Engine is a proof of concept system. It was designed, built and operated for the specific purposes of demonstrating both a new IC engine configuration for the optimization of engine efficency when using a hydrogen based fuel,
Dow SI-LINK™ DFDF-5451 NT Faster Curing Ethylene-Silane Copolymer is a patent-pending advanced polymer with an entirely new molecular architecture for making electrical cables with unmatched performance and sustainability.
"Imagine that a person simply takes a hose and sets his source of water regardless of how dirty it is and presses the button after which he takes clean water and can drink it calmly - this is the main idea of our project" from the author of the project "Defuse-IT.
The most important components that determine the high combat readiness of military units are the maintenance of full serviceability and readiness for immediate combat use of military equipment, in particular artillery guns (howitzers).
Howitzer rods belong to the damping and recoil control system.
I have developed and demonstrated a scalable, fully-electrified process for “green” ammonia (NH3) production from abundant resources in the Earth – air, water, and renewable electricity. The technology enables activation of inert nitrogen and ensuing conversion to ammonia through an integrated plasma and electrocatalysis. It provides significant benefit to agriculture and energy sectors as distributed,
This work was carried out in 2023. The purpose of the study is to create a device capable of identifying a person by Face-ID, with the function of measuring body temperature and sending it to a database to improve the safety and health monitoring of people in public places.
With the continuous flow watering can, you only water the area the water is intended for, with no wastage saving time and money. For commercial application there is no mist drift with all the water going on the ground, and not some being blown away in the wind to somebody else’s field, or lost to evaporation.
Prolonged exposure to microgravity is known to cause various acute health risks, including muscle atrophy, bone loss, cardiovascular deconditioning, and orthostatic intolerance. Due to the absence of gravitational force, bodily fluid hydrostatic pressure gradients vanish, and blood distribution shifts from the astronaut's legs toward their upper body. Consequently, 
Engine cooling method which is implemented by alternating it with the thermodynamic cycle. When the control unit deems it appropriate, the engine changes its operating mode for several engine revolutions, interrupting its thermodynamic cycle and activating this cooling method.
This cooling method is an evolution of the Bosch WaterBoost concept,
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