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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On-board device for providing engine starting power even when vehicle or vessel batteries are dead.
KBI has been providing supercapacitor-powered engine starting systems for decades to the commercial transportation market. Ten of thousands of installations nationwide.
A smaller, consumer orientated product has been developed for the Recreational & Commercial Marine Market, the Specialty Vehicle market,
Sleep Apnea System () is a patented, non-invasive therapeutic device designed to treat both obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and hypopnea through a dual oral appliance system. It targets the primary anatomical mechanisms of upper airway collapse during sleep without the use of masks, external devices, or positive airway pressure.
For those companies that struggle to recycle their waste, Plastalyst recycles organic waste and plastic waste into chemicals such as monomers, hydrogen, carbon monoxide and methanol.
Uniquely, the process is below 200°C, produces no CO2 and only uses water as a solvent.
Plastalyst focuses on the most-difficult-to-recycle waste, such as cables, CFRP or circuit boards.
Simply splitting the piston crown from the skirt (Fig. 1) to pump gases for the combustion chamber via a (valvetrain-like) “piston-train” and then combining to turn the crank” makes a 2-/4-cycle hybrid, called “D-Cycle” (Differential-Stroke-Cycle) engine.
Portable Simultaneous Translator: Communication Without Barriers
I'm here to present our innovative product: the Portable Simultaneous Translator, a revolutionary solution designed to break down language barriers.
Our device, compact and user-friendly, consists of the following key components:
High-sensitivity microphone: Captures the user's voice with exceptional clarity, even in noisy environments.
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This pioneering passenger car integrates a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine (H2-ICE) with a mechanical kinetic energy recovery system (KERS), delivering a sustainable alternative to battery-electric vehicles (BEVs). The design addresses BEV limitations, including resource-intensive battery production, grid decarbonization dependency, and the environmental toll of frequent vehicle replacement.
ThermoLock™ is a high-performance, passive fireproof coating system engineered to enhance the heat resistance, durability, and survivability of critical assets in aerospace, spaceflight, and defense sectors. Developed by Doctor T Co., Ltd. in Thailand as a proprietary extension of the TPoxy™ platform (currently under IP filing),
DRT-Sand™ is a novel materials innovation that transforms previously unusable desert or coastal sand into a functional construction-grade substrate through an advanced nanobonding process. Developed by Doctor T Company in Thailand, the system introduces a proprietary coating (TPoxy™) that binds each grain with a nanoscale film, resulting in engineered sand that is water-resistant, dust-suppressed,
The EM Sektet Thruster is a novel propellantless electromechanical propulsion system that generates net thrust by exploiting the principles of electromagnetic induction—specifically Lenz’s Law—in a way that transfers momentum internally within the system. Unlike conventional propulsion systems, which require the ejection of mass (propellant) to generate thrust in accordance with Newton’s Third Law,
When medical prescriptions are written in difficult-to-read handwriting patients face greater danger of medication errors alongside interrupted healthcare operations and compromised safety. An OCR-NLP-based approach within our project serves to both accurately interpret and validate handwritten medical prescriptions precisely.
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