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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This describes an efficient water heater that uses microwave radiation to heat a coiled water pipe. The radiation is contained in a metal cavity, painted inside with microwave-reflective paint, similar to that used in home microwave cooking ovens, and on stealth aircraft.
The objective of this project is to maximize the efficiency of LED flashlights. A 60° field-of-illumination LED is positioned just below the barrel, and is aimed at the off-axis parabola, which reflects all of the light in a focused beam. No light is wasted. If desired,
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A depth thread plug gauge is a device that can measure the size of the thread and the depth of the thread, both in a single go. Conventionally, to measure the depth of a thread, external instrumentation is required which consumes extra time.
ATOM-1.0 Humanoid Robot Project:
It is important in today’s modern age of technology to have pioneers push forward to reach greater achievements. The pioneer must have a vision, determination and not be easily discouraged by lack of project funding or criticism. Without great thinkers whose vision was before their time, where would our current technology stand.
Classic Rocket Propulsion may be defined as the application of force that initiates or changes the motion of a rocket based on Newtonian action-reaction principles. This method is primitive, potentially dangerous, and has limited range due to fuel requirements. It is also very slow, far too slow for interstellar travel and barely fast enough for interplanetary travel.
The Hydrogen Economy is most often refereed to in conjunction with hydrogen powered automobiles, whose hydrogen is, ironically, most often produced from hydrocarbons. The barriers to this scheme are enormous. What is outlined here, in contrast, are the means to replace the steam generators in conventional electric power plants with hydrogen-fired steam generators.
Lumotive is empowering a new era in autonomy and augmented reality with tiny, low-cost and ubiquitous lidar (light detection and ranging). Our highly-scalable lidar platform leverages unique beam-steering technology based on patented Liquid Crystal Metasurfaces™ to deliver an unprecedented combination of high performance and readiness for mass adoption as measured by cost, 
The RVA series of valves were designed to permit the repair of failed valves without the need to remove the cylinder head of the engine. In all curent engine designs the failure of a valve requires access to both the outer and inner portion of the cylinder in which the valve has failed;
1) The continuous development and possible use of flying cars and delivery drones on the open sky over the city and metropolitan areas can through the time overcrowd the sky and originate Challenger-like accidents, felling cars, careless drivers, bad guys use its for terrorism, etc.
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