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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I have designed and built a prototype replaceable vise jaws for use as a combined parallel and angle setting device. There are recently produced products that operate similarly, however, they use compressed air to "activate" the pins and all but the needed ones must be retracted. This has to occur every time the vise is opened and closed.
The DZAD cycle has won several global awards due to the disruptive nature of the technologies for the sector. Anaerobic Digestion is known to be amongst the best methodologies for treating solid waste. It also enables generation of energy and fertilizer (slurry). In a typical anaerobic digestion process food waste/ municipal solid waste/ farm waste etc.
Our team has discovered a single-molecule switch that can act like a transistor and store binary information such as the 1s and 0s used in classical computing. The molecule is around five square nanometers in size — more than one billion of them would fit onto the cross-section of a human hair. Based on our experiments,
Congenital heart diseases are the most common form of birth deformities that require surgical intervention. Given the nature of infants, pediatric cardiac surgeons need to master their craft and develop advanced psychomotor skills to save such delicate yet complex organs. However, with its opportunity-based education,
A dog can lift its hind leg just by thought.
Cars will now have the same ability to lift any or all the wheels off the ground with just the push of a button.
Should you have a flat tire, you no longer need to drag the jack from the trunk.
Our drones are designed to deliver small things over a short distance and help to improve sales growth at different supermarket and stores. They do it with an online store. We will have a large online store connected with supermarkets and various shops in the area where buyers order things.
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Vessel collisions at sea are threats to life and property. During the 10-year period 2011-2021, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) reports 1,494 incidents were classified as "very serious marine casualties," meaning a total loss of a ship, a death, or severe damage to the environment. Many of these incidents resulted from conditions of limited visibility,
The maturity of the technologies for the guidance and control of RPAS allows for innovative operational options such as the ability to spray (a liquid) a significant amount of an agent of any sort at a pre-established point in the atmosphere.
This is the case of NitroFirex,
Betterfrost’s solution defrosts and defogs Electric Vehicles’ windshields with 20 times less power than current technology and extends the range of an EV by 38 km on an average commute in winter. This range is worth $600/vehicle in battery pack cost to automakers. Our system provides high-voltage, pulsed power to the transparent, conductive layer inside of windshields (e.g.
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1 in 50 pregnancies in the US are ectopic. In the UK the number is 6 in 50. An ectopic pregnancy is a pregnancy that happens outside of the uterus. An ectopic pregnancy often happens in the Fallopian tubes (a pair of structures that connect the ovaries and uterus). The fallopian tubes aren’t as flexible.
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