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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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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A valveless fickett-jacobs cycle internal detonation engines that boasts pure isochoric constant volume heat addition, giving them the world's highest efficiency for a given stroke to bore ratio. Using a modernized scotch yoke with new technology. Our working prototypes have a static compression ratio of 30 to one and 50 to one, respectively. 
With my years of travel to developing countries, especially Africa, I often wished I had a bathroom scale to monitor my weight. Way too bulky and heavy. I have searched and searched and there appears to be nothing on the market. Plenty of scales for weighing suitcases and fish.
The relationship between manufacturers and countries around the world from 1979 with environmental emissions laws as well as the globalization of manufacturing showed that not everyone due to their domestic economies can have the same product worldwide. The same applies to CO emissions;
It's a robotic startup that builds demotic robot with resealable price to be owned by any consumer. We focus on housekeeping robots with many features to add fun and adventure to the ordinary routine work, helping to reduce time and effort.
Conventional surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates are usually performed by Ag-or-Au metal nanoparticles (Ag,Au-MNPs) in suspension-or-solid substrates. The SERS mechanism is widely explained by the hot spots and shape of Ag,Au-MNPs. Here,
Vehicle Door Protector (patented) - as its name implies, is a simple to use device that prevents dents dings, and scratches of most types of automobiles - car, truck, van, etc...
Some of its features are: It's water-proof, lightweight, and doesn't use any magnet, but protects most parts of the vehicle exterior.
The CDC recently estimated that there are 83 million nosocomial (hospital-acquired) infections a year. The majority, 52.8%, resulting in pneumonia. Pneumonia is caused by bacteria, viral, chemical or other microorganisms. The majority of times the patient responds by spiking a temperature. Temperatures are normally taken once to three times a day.
One woman with Obstetric Fistula (ObF) said ‘Cure my leaking fistula first. If I am blind, people will sit with me and talk to me, but no-one will come near me because I’m wet and I smell..’
One to four million marginalized young women worldwide are affected by ObF.
Presented in Fig 1 is an overview of a Constant Speed, Infinitely Variable Semi-tractor transmission which utilizes an Angular Motion Translator (AMT, US 6,547,689) to control a Variable Displacement System (VDS, US 9,890,638) (or Hydraulic Pump) coupled to a Hydraulic Motor.
The Variable Displacement System (see Fig. 2) consists of an in-line, co-axial,
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