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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“At COMSOL, we are very excited to recognize innovators and their important work this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to support the Create the Future Design Contest, which is an excellent platform for designers to showcase their ideas and products in front of a worldwide audience. Best of luck to all participants!”
— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.
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Hydrogen Generation by DC/ Pulsed Electrolysis with Smart Materials Enhanced by Magnetic Field.
N. Kukhtarev, T.Kukhtareva, 2247 Fargo St. Los Angeles
There is worldwide need for environmental-friendly affordable sources of energy. Hydrogen is attractive candidate for an energy source that can be produced by electrolysis of water.
Breakthrough Propulsion Program -Asymmetrical thrust demonstrated
NASA seeks to find an inertia style thruster (Breakthrough Propulsion Program BPP, 1996 – 2002). The proof of concept in the attached drawings depicts a simple mechanism, self contained, that produces an asymmetrical thrust that results in a velocity of 30 ft/sec (about 24 mph) in this example.
The Rotating-Field Modulated Antenna (RFMA) introduces a novel method for achieving compact and efficient Very Low Frequency (VLF) communication by synthesizing and modulating circulating electromagnetic energy. This solution addresses a long-standing limitation in VLF systems, where conventional antennas must span hundreds to thousands of meters to achieve meaningful radiation efficiency.
BioSeal™ is an innovative, field-ready containment system designed to safely isolate human or animal corpses in settings where traditional mortuary infrastructure is absent, unsafe, or overwhelmed. Built for crises such as pandemics, natural disasters, armed conflict, or mass livestock mortality events, BioSeal™ offers a modular and scalable approach to emergency bio-containment and infection control in crisis zones.
The Smart Engineering Resource Tab is an innovative, low-cost tablet designed to empower engineering students with an all-in-one hub for learning, prototyping, and collaboration. Tailored for electronics, mechanical, and other disciplines, this portable device integrates preloaded resources, simulation tools, and IoT connectivity to streamline academic and project work, making STEM education accessible globally,
Founded in 2018 by engineers from Stanford, MIT, and Google, UnitX is a robotics company committed to revolutionizing AI-powered visual inspection in manufacturing. UnitX system delivers the industry-best in accuracy inline inspection, fastest deployment, and adaptability, tackling the most complex inspection challenges across diverse production environments.We strive to elevate 20% of the world’s GDP through intelligent automation.
Nowadays accidents might occur because of varied reasons; the foremost reason is equipment failure and is happened due to improper maintenance of the products. To prevent these abnormal situations and to protect one's life from these accidents, there's a necessity for watching of braking system in cars. Special safety options are engineered into vehicles occupants solely,
The Negative Embodied Carbon Autonomous Unmanned Surface Vehicle (NEC-USV) is a pioneering maritime platform designed to achieve a net-negative carbon footprint while delivering advanced capabilities for maritime security and environmental monitoring. Constructed with carbon fiber derived from captured and recycled CO2 and powered by synthetic e-fuel combustion,
Our design introduces a unique approach to transform inherently brittle materials, such as ceramics, into adaptable and tough structures through the ancient art of origami, enabled by additive manufacturing (AM) and elastic coating. Traditionally, brittle materials fail catastrophically under stress, which limits their use in applications that require damage-tolerance behavior.
We create innovative, inclusive, and practical bicycle designs, available as "Open Source" to be freely used, adapted, and manufactured worldwide. From compact tandems to cargo and full-body workout bikes, Roden addresses real mobility needs with low-tech, scalable solutions.
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