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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Jar Mate (patent pending) is a versatile suite of adapters easily fastening to discarded jars and cans, converting them into attractive stylish vessels for drinking, vases and more. This incentivizes the repurposing of discarded jars, both plastic and glass to keep them out of the costly recycling and waste streams and out of the environment.
A modular solar tower thermal air heating system that heats incoming air twice and also heats a thermal mass that provides heat during night hours . The Solar Tower system is for greenhouses, farm buildings, industrial, commercial buildings , schools, residential and summer cottages.
IDEA/SOLUTION:
• failure to locate faults/problems/ errors etc. instantly
• failure to measure both the infectious pathogen $ the host response in few minutes
{problem to conduct diagnostic test that produces rapid & reliable health status results in 6 mins/instantly},
• failure to produce health status reports that fully disclose each person’s health information scanned: eg critical infection/ illness;
IDEA/SOLUTION:
• failure to locate faults/ problems/ errors etc instantly
• defense during war/ security protection surrounding area:
[proximity sensors: detecting objects/ people getting closer to you {alerting}]
• failure by auto cameras to shoot/ auto fly & scan to capture/record videos, photos,
Automobile displays such as engine temperature and oil pressure are being displaced by audible alarms and readouts on monitors with a simple digital readout for MPH. For the few applications that use a tachometer, its display can be overlaid on the front view when the driver’s hand touches the shift knob.
It is a security tape that prevents the possible theft of your cell phone and falls from it.
Aabey LLC’s mission is to address global food scarcity by fusing 2 innovative industries, technology and agriculture.
It is a minority-owned startup trying to bridge the gap between Technology and Hydroponics, by integrating IIoT design methodologies that transform age-old farming processes into environmentally friendly smart-hydroponic greenhouses. This will enable minimizing water use and other resources,
Using my patented Combined Remediation Biomass and Bio-Product Production (CRBBP) Process, one plants and then multi-tasks fast and large-growing Bio-Crops, to cost-effectively do good things, powered by sunlight, like capturing large amounts of CO2, remediating air, soil and water, and then making circular economy bio-products from the harvested material,
I am working on an Energy Harvesting Uninterruptable Power Supply (eHUPS) to increase capabilities for advanced test facilities. This innovation incorporates renewable energy technologies to dramatically enhance UPS system applications over a wide range of market sectors.
Increased capabilities:
UPS systems are widely used for critical equipment resilience.
The community welcomes their SULO Bins almost everywhere worldwide. These bins are seen as a very appreciated service and hold great credibility for what tasks they perform. Such SULO Bins are therefore the ideal community service to add a lid with greenhouse gas capture benefits to reduce the methane, carbon dioide and nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere.
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