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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Dehydration is a significant problem with 75% of Americans being dehydrated daily. If misdiagnosed and left untreated, dehydration can quickly have negative effects on physical and cognitive performance, as well as intensify chronic diseases. Treatments for dehydration may cost up to 5 billion dollars annually.
This invention provides vertical lift flight at a much lower power requirement than existing rotorcraft. Existing rotorcraft generate lift by accelerating airflow through the rotor disk. The change in air speed imparts a lifting force on the aircraft through conservation of momentum.
In this device the air flow changes direction, not speed.
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates the need at approximately 10 gigatonnes of net CO2 removal per year by the year 2050 in order to keep global temperature rise under 1.5 or 2C. There is a tremendous need to have perennial and continuous access to cost-effective electricity generated from the intermittent energy sources (wind, solar, geothermal,
My latest invention is pretty straightforward: a bullet hits the target pendulum, the pendulum goes backwards and up and knocks a can out of the holder and up into the air where it becomes another moving target to shoot at.
Personal Protective Nose Mask (PPNM) - a unique invention for an added protection to doctors, nurses, and the general public to protect themselves from the deadly virus COVID-19 in addition to regular types of face/cloth masks.
The effectiveness of diet control, exercise and weight loss in reducing the development of type 2 DM can be measured by evaluating the plasma concentrations of insulin, hs-CRP, IL-6, IL-10, adiponectin, Lipoxin A4, BDNF, HbA1C in addition to plasma glucose. It is noteworthy that exercise increases plasma adiponectin, LXA4 (lipoxin A4),
1) Issue: safety glasses fog when technicians have a dusk mask on. This issue was amplified more so during Covid.
2) Current "fogless" glasses don't work because instead of fog there is running water that also obstructs the vision.
3) My invention works by having strategically drilled holes on the safety glass.
Angina is a form of chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart and is a symptom of coronary artery disease. It is often described as squeezing, heaviness, tightness, or chest pain. Refractory angina (RA) is a persistent condition of angina, which cannot be treated by current medical therapy, angioplasty/percutaneous interventions, or coronary bypass surgery.
The MakerLisp COR24 microprocessor is a CPU architecture and implementation leveraging the unique performance benefits of low-cost FPGAs. This processor is a hedge against the rising costs and unpredictable availability of mass produced custom semiconductor microprocessor and micro-controller products.
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