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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Many blind people find it difficult to use mobile communication devices. Currently, special applications have been created for them, but this cannot be a general solution. That's why I developed a special telephone device for the blind. With this device, blind people can write a message and send an SMS to a phone number using the Braille function.
PRODUCT: SUSTAINABLE [IOT BASED ] AUTO-WIRELESS STAFF REGISTER BOOK FOR MULTI-COMPANIES
HOW IT WORKS: simply press on the power button & if you are on duty today... press [on] green button then you have reported to all management/ human resources site/ staff data-base site that you are on duty today.
• PRODUCT NAME : Sustainable [IoT based] technological ANTI-VIRUS-TRAP APP
with invisible-data-recovery/protector-pockets for data/files etc
• Tagline: multi &
• PRODUCT NAME: SUSTAINABLE GUARDING SECURITY [IoT based: auto-wireless]
AUTO-SCAN-VIEW-SPECTACLES connected to shop shelf-cameras
• TAGLINE: enhanced maximum guarding security
• PRODUCT FEATURES [AUTO-SCAN-VIEW-SPECTACLES]:
- special auto-spectacles for guarding security
Marine debris collection using manual methods is inefficient, costly, difficult, and sometimes impossible. Our Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)is controlled by an operator who is not physically present underwater, reducing risks and improving safety. By providing a low-cost, easy-to-use ROV that is transportable and operates to 500m, it helps more people do this important job worldwide.
In the aviation industry, sealant removal is among the most terrible work for maintenance people, especially when removing sealant inside fuel tanks. Present tooling is mostly either heavy in weight or big in size and not effective. Therefore, our tooling can erase the above issues.
IDEA NAME: [IoT based] SUSTAINABLE {AUTO-CODING-WEB FEATURE} for all softwares
IDEA [function]: DESIGNING ON PAGE MANIPULATING CODE STRINGS/FEATURES USING [DESIGNING & CODING SENSORS] TECHNOLOGICALLY
[IoT based] SUSTAINABLE {AUTO-CODING-WEB FEATURE} features/qualities:
• produce errorless &
The Ina Vibe Project is a eco-friendly clean cooking, charging, and lighting solution designed to address the energy poverty that has led to unsustainable and unhealthy cooking and lighting practices in Nigeria. With over 90 million Nigerians lacking access to grid electricity and over 180 million Nigerians lacking access to clean-cooking products,
[IoT based] SUSTAINABLE DATA STORAGE auto-compressing features for optimum data space creation
PRODUCT FEATURES/QUALITIES}:
* DATA STORAGE METHODS: FILE STORAGE, BLOCK STORAGE & OBJECT STORAGE.
with enhanced “IoT based tag data auto-compressors” it auto-sense, tag & delete corrupt data files; temp data files; duplicated data files;
[it auto-track/sense &
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