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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DOWSILTM TC-6040 is developed as 2-part thermal encapsulant with highest thermal conductivity 4W/mK to boost thermal dissipation in EV powertrain, which has been commercialized and formally launched in 2024.
With the fast-growing market of EV globally, the power electronics are rising focus on higher power energy design due to required faster charging and higher energy battery.
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The Sensor-Controlled Gravity/Buoyancy Power Pit Generator is an innovative renewable energy system designed to operate efficiently in any geographic location, overcoming the limitations of conventional renewable sources such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric power, which are highly dependent on specific weather conditions. Unlike these traditional systems,
Title 1 headlight recess can reduce glare on incoming vehicles and also provide focused beam and can also have shutter to protect light
Title 2 air compressor with tank can provide a jockey start to engine in case of battery failure and can be attached to flywheel or be driven by air motor ,
Electronic components and devices are indispensable to modern civilization, but their widespread use has led to increasing environmental concerns, particularly the generation of electronic waste (e-waste). Flexible electronics, in particular, contribute significantly to this issue, as they are typically made from non-degradable, petroleum-based synthetic polymers that persist in the environment long after their end use. Simultaneously,
The sintering method for diamond grains was first reported by Bundy et al. in 19631). This technique bonds diamond grains together to form bulk diamond. However, residual cobalt within the diamond structure can degrade its properties. As an alternative,
Conventional solid polymer electrolytes used in lithium-ion batteries often perform poorly due to structural limitations, particularly poor contact with electrodes, and they fail to prevent the growth of lithium dendrites—needle-like structures that form during charging cycles and can cause short circuits, fires, or explosions.
To address these issues,
This project establishes a vehicle speed limit monitoring system that can operate in both offline and online modes and detect if a car is travelling faster than the posted speed limit on the road it is currently on.
Bipolar Disorder 1 (BD1) victimizes nearly three million people in the U.S. alone. Moreover, the treatment for BD1, while ineffective for many patients, includes lithium and other drugs with onerous side effects. The suicide rate is very high. Nevertheless,
According to the Scientific Service of the German Bundestag, the energy transition will cost around €13.3 trillion by 2045, more than three times the gross domestic product. The assumption made there that renewable electrical energy is available almost all the time is misleading. It ignores the importance of the thermodynamic potential of fuels for grid stability.
OrganShare is an innovative end-to-end organ donation and management system designed to address the inefficiencies, lack of transparency, and ethical concerns in current organ donation practices. Traditional organ donation systems often suffer from delays, manipulation, and lack of accountability, sometimes turning life-saving processes into profit-driven businesses. OrganShare leverages blockchain technology to create a transparent, secure,
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