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.
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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 Square Trajectory Mechanism performs the exact square trajectory, using only one source of rotational input and without any constraints or guidance applied to the output point of motion. The entire mechanical assembly is exclusively contained inside the square perimeter.
This entry presents a novel hybrid biologically-inspired dual-reciprocating and oscillation robotic drill and sampler. The proposed system combines both reciprocation motion bioinspired by the wood wasp ovipositor and a new undulatory/oscillation motion bioinspired by the caudal fins of marine creatures, (which use this motion to generate a thrust force to propel themselves through water),
TokaTrac CVT was developed using well established design principles to produce a CVT that can be designed according to specific torque, durability and duty cycle requirements. Our patent pending* CVT technology enables features such as:
* Full CVT capability under all load conditions i.e. max. input torque across all ratios
* Geared regeneration, bidirectional i.e.
Although current EBW devices represent the ultimate in safety in Aerospace applications, the use of high temperature insensitive explosives would represent an improvement especially in harsher thermal environments. EBW initiation is used for rocket engines, gas generators. pyro separation devices, activation of emergency systems, and other critical Aerospace and Military Systems.
YOU SPEAK/ SPELL OUT CUSTOMIZABLE “COMBINED CHARACTERS” IN THE PRE-RECORDED VOICE WITHOUT TYPING IN CUSTOMIZABLE “COMBINED CHARACTERS”
IN THE [PASSWORD SPACE]. INSTEAD YOU ACTIVATE THE SPECIAL “IoT BASED MICROPHONE VOICE RECORDER” FOR SAYING/SPELLING OUT CUSTOMIZABLE “COMBINED CHARACTERS” IN VOICE FORM.
[VOICE PASSWORD [qualities/ features: password uniquefier or password protection], editable password,
SUSTAINABLE PRODUCT: [IoT BASED] PRESTO-DETECTOR Data-Distributor- Communicator [IoT BASED [multi-functional APP]
{product FOR FASTEST DATA DETECTION , DATA COMMUNICATION & DATA DISTRIBUTION TO MULTI-CONSUMERS]}
APP FUNCTION [it’s main purpose to consumers/ clients/business/ companies]:
it detects & solves [data issues multi-solver] data-flow issues, data availability/ non-availability & distribution,
We have invented a proprietary method to artificially offset the center of mass of a rolling object, forward of the center of rotation, thereby putting a rolling mass into an artificial state of unbalance.
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The Hopper is a VTOL aircraft with no dangerously exposed rotor blades like a helicopter. The Hopper's rotor blades are enclosed in the fan chamber making it Safe, Quiet, and Efficient. First Responders and the Troops can use the Hopper to move patients or transport cargo/medical supplies.
Transformer efficiency is the ratio of the output power to the input power. Output power is always lower than the input power due to energy losses. Besides measures put in place to reduce energy losses; including use of laminations, soft iron core and copper wires. Commercially used transformers are still about ninety percent efficient,
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