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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This information and video overview of the TEPStm MOG Canal Boat describes a 35 year working solar vessel that is privately owned and precisely matches the four words above. We seek to have designers, engineers, corporations, agencies,
Communication plays an important role in everyday life. We as human beings tend to communicate our needs to one another. As per the reports given by WHO back in 2021, 5% of the world population is suffering from hearing loss which is approximately 430+million people on this planet who are deaf.
IDEA/SOLUTION:
failure to protect touch screen, LCD breakage, total water-proofing,
ULTIMATE prevention of dust/ dirty accumulating on the touch screen,
The Eternium long range multi-role fuel cell electric aircraft and liquid hydrogen fuel production system consists of several patent-pending and novel engineering advances that make long-range (3200nm) electric flight possible. This system is based around our high power density patent-pending Eternium dual-rotor superconductive motor,
The PlaxiBATH is an assistive bath device designed to provide personal hygiene and safety without or minimizing the aid of a caregiver, boasting a slew of built-in safety features (e.g., a panic button and anti-fall detection) for the convenience of the elderly and people with mobility difficulties (monoplegia, hemiplegia, paraplegia and quadriplegia).
The Gator is an intermediate trailer that houses batteries and an electric motor to instantly convert any semi-tractor into a plug-in hybrid.
The Gator will revolutionize the transportation and shipping industry to quickly convert many tractors to run mostly on grid power. The key market demographic consists of trucking companies operating intrastate routes.
Metallic zinc is a non-renewable resource that is a critical input to galvanizing operations, which, in turn, is critical to building long-lasting steel structures that are crucial to our global infrastructure. The InterCoat ChemGuard portfolio, particularly the newest invention in that portfolio (ChemGuard-AG -> just starting a limited commercial phase),
Healthy and biodegradable water bottles created from seaweed. Water is available in several, natural flavors as well made through a process that promotes health (Ayurvedic process) This product addresses both health & environment.
Firstly, there is the environmental crisis, a great part of it coming from the excess usage of plastic.
Eyewear providing UV light and ballistic protection to wearer's eyes at the least possible weight. This design incorporates a hydrophilic polymer nosepiece that becomes tacky when wet,
The Human Blueprint For A Spacesuit
Skin-tight spacesuit ACUSUIT BIO-SUIT is a new revolutionary astronaut suit that focuses on the truth of our electromagnetic nature. The superficial and gas related astronaut suits that are being created today will prove ineffective because the new paradigm of space travel will be electromagnetic in nature.
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