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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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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Geopolymer term was given by Dr Joseph Davidovits from France in 1978 and created Geopolymer Institute. Geopolymers are a class of totally inorganic, alumino-silicate based ceramics that are charge balanced by group I oxides. These are rigid gels made at lower temperature and pressure into near-net dimension bodies mostly though Vibro-casting or ramming process.
The device is a dual mode engine for aircraft. Today's engines are either for flight within the atmosphere (turbo jet) or space (rockets) but not both. In the attached picture you will see a simple non-detailed cross section of a turbo jet engine. The illustration show the engine in turbo jet mode and rocket mode.
The Catch All Harvest Concept is a netting based harvest system.
The netting is placed under the harvested agricultural product and a container is placed under the net to gather fallen, ripe produce from the crop.
It is modular. It can be infinitely large (netting systems connected in a row) or placed under a single plant.
A sensor capturing the minimum distance allowed. Sending a signal to a stop LED. Connected by means of electrical circuit to a module. To be installed in new vehicles (0Km), private and private, used vehicles, vans, utilities, school transport, trucks and any other means of locomotion.
The present invention aims to order parking, accurately on private streets without signage.
The frequency of droughts has increased by nearly a third globally since 2000. A UN report states that 75% of the world could face drought by 2050, and 5.7 billion people could live in areas with water shortages for a month or more every year. Water scarcity due to climate change alone will necessitate a reduction in leakage.
A fundamentally new type of power mechanical gyroscope Gyro_6DoF with the maximum number of degrees of freedom in a holonomic mechanical system is proposed, the operation of which was developed and tested using AI.
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The proposed design of the Optical Detector Sensors System was implemented with the purpose of its functioning as an Essential Device, in a Solar Locating and Tracking Control System, which was designed to function independently of Clock Time.
The Tracker was implemented using two simple 6V- DC spit fire motors,
How does a wheelchair user hang picture frames in their house without any assistance up in their wall? Sure it is not day to day task but still it must feel limited to hang at once or change the frame at will.
Inspired with flag pole rope system, I am building a very simple,
Providing vivid graphics to gripping surfaces.
Slip resistance is required in many applications. Slip resistant materials are usually a textured surface, and made from a hard, abrasive material such as sandpaper, or a softer elastomeric material. In order to be slip resistant, these materials need a texture to improve grip. Unfortunately, a texture prevents or distorts any graphic application.
The Dual High Efficient Generator has numerous applications from which it can produce electric power and benefits over a traditional generator design. Here’s some examples:
By having an inner & outer Generator, the loads are equally balanced by the two generators, thus minimizing the resistance on the coils & lower RPM &
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