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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The "Smart Plow" is the Snow Plow robotic Machine that attaches to the standard front mounting plate of the Cities' / Municipalities' Trucks.
It operates in the way that removes the snow from the street and deposits it selectively to the side of the street.
The snow will not be deposited at the entrance of any driveway,
Seevoice: A comprehensive solution for all your hearing and alerting needs!
We understand that not everyone with hearing loss can benefit from a hearing aid.
Moderate and Severe hearing loss caused due to damage in the auditory nerve or inner ear section, make hearing aids have little effect on the individual.
Designed is an AI Powered Mobile Jamming Drone that can trace down mobile signals, create a swarm and localize mobile jamming so that it does not affect others. Like in a condition where hostages have been held in a building, the drone can travel into the building so as to break down any kind of communication by the enemies.
Two concepts invented for delivering cargo to the lunar surface: OPLONAS (Oversized Payload Lander On Non-Atmospheric Somata) and MACEDONAS (Momentum Absorption Catcher for Express Delivery on Non-Atmospheric Somata). The second can derive from the first by scavenging the flexible elements of OPLONAS, the radial high tensile ropes and the perimetrical wires.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear that we need to have a more accessible and democratic health system around the world. The inequality problem is even more evident in developing countries, where some urban centers have more than enough medical resources while most countryside doesn't even have laboratory analysis facilities,
Measuring big things is always a challenge. To measure mountain size objects, the golden technique today is using drone topographic scan or ground topographic surveys. These are nice and precise techniques, but they have a few limitations: usually need human intervention,
Riskut – A New Approach to Device and Data Security
A new category in the mobile device and data protection marketplace.
Riskut is the initial product offering of the ProximID Group, which has developed unique solutions based on security by proximity.
Material scientists have made tremendous efforts for the miniaturization of computer processors both in the industries and the academic sectors. Here, we have approached a physical limit of silicon technology, where Moore’s law cannot be challenged. In the era of colossal technological advances, it has become imperative for materials to have extraordinary properties and bring intriguing technologies.
Our design idea solves the problem of providing a means to construct a double layered, expandable dynamic spaceframe, which can transform from one freeform to another, whilst remaining rigid and load bearing throughout its transformation. It takes up little space when folded but can then be expanded to cover a large area or occupy a large space.
The Opioid crisis is a major epidemic. Social and economic well-being have flatlined as opioid abuse and overdoses devastate communities and overwhelm public health infrastructure. According to the CDC, almost 136 people die every day in the USA due to an opioid overdose. Starting in the 1990s USA,
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