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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The Regenerative Suspension System is a patented hydraulic technology designed to convert the mechanical motion of vehicle shock absorbers into usable electrical energy. Unlike conventional suspensions that dissipate impact forces as heat and vibration, this system harvests kinetic energy during both compression and rebound phases, providing a continuous, renewable power source to support vehicle electronics, battery recharging,
Mosquito-borne diseases devastate communities worldwide, infecting hundreds of millions and causing over 700,000 deaths each year. In many resource-limited regions, affordable, scalable mosquito control is unavailable. Existing solutions are costly, require maintenance or electricity, and cannot be deployed at sufficient scale, leaving lives at risk.
Approximately one third of the 46,700 annual residential electrical fires are attributed to wire insulation issues. Furthermore, electrical issues are a leading cause of boat fires and are often implicated in fires in ground and air vehicles. Wiring insulation and conductors are susceptible to aging, damage (due to abrasion, flexing, tension, maintenance and inspection handling, and even animals),
The Robotics Integration System is a revolutionizing tool that will address the major concerns of integration and interoperability in robotics and automation. By creating chances for collaboration and productivity and stimulating sustainable methods of working,
AuraGuard 5G‑ISAC System-on-Chip is a single system‑on‑chip that fuses millimetre‑wave radar sensing, ultra‑reliable low latency 5 G communication and safety‑certified logic, transforming every collaborative robot into a perceptive, context‑aware teammate. A 100 MHz,
One of the biggest challenges in healing large or complex bone injuries is the lack of blood vessels in the implanted scaffold.
While 3D bioprinting has made it possible to design bone-like structures using biocompatible materials and bone-forming cells, these constructs often fail because they can’t support proper nutrient flow.
Without a built-in vascular system,
AutoMech Rover is a prototype autonomous material handling robot developed to address the challenges of manual labor in small-scale warehouses and industries. While large enterprises use costly Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs), such systems are not feasible for smaller setups. Our solution provides a low-cost, compact,
Cervisafe () is an advanced cervical support system engineered to improve passenger posture and minimize neck fatigue during travel across public and private transportation. The invention introduces two specialized models—one for mass transit and one for personal vehicles—each designed to provide tailored ergonomic benefits while maintaining seat functionality and aesthetic integrity.
It has been discussed earlier that when a body slides down an inclined plane with angle of inclination less than 45° the downward and forward motion of the body can be restricied by a thread or support perfectly parallel to the horizontal so that a portion of the weight of the body is not supported even at the position
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