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.
Help build a better tomorrow
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.
Listen nowThank you from our Sponsors
“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.
“From our beginnings, Mouser has supported engineers, innovators and students. We are proud of our longstanding support for the Create the Future Design Contest and the many innovations it has inspired.”
— Kevin Hess, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Mouser Electronics
contest
Contest
Our Focus:
Current communication systems for paralyzed individuals primarily rely on assistive technologies such as eye-tracking devices, speech-generating systems, and muscle-based switches. These tools require some residual physical ability and often suffer from slow response times and limited vocabulary. In battlefield communication, soldiers typically rely on radio-based voice transmission or hand signals.
Our idea is to develop a multi-layered filtration membrane for purifying, deodorizing, decolorizing, disinfecting the grey water. Administrate UV treatment for photocatalytic degradation and deactivation of hazardous chemicals of the grey water.
The grey water first passes through the polyolefin membrane, then the multi layered membrane that consists of the polyethylene terephthalate (PET), chitosan, polyurethane cyclodextrin.
One of the biggest barriers to EV adoption is the lack of agility, especially in the price-sensitive 4-wheeler commercial segment, where uptime directly impacts business operations. Despite government subsidies, adoption in this segment remains a dismal 0.6%.
Our technology solves this by delivering autonomous 1-minute battery swapping.
HAULER T20 (Patent Pending number BR102025006250) is equipment developed to reduce risks to people and processes, improving health and safety conditions in underground mining environments when compared to diesel-powered.
It is an important innovation because, in addition to its autonomous (driverless) operation, it features a side-turn bucket and a chassis-less design.
This is a fast manufacturing process, an alternative to 3-D printing, for making thin panel parts (perhaps replacements for damaged International Space Station panels, astronaut-suit panels, etc.) by spraying together two laminar-flow (clear liquid sheets without air bubbles) epoxy hardener and resin.
Two computer-controlled pliable nozzles are used, one each for epoxy resin, and hardener.
Our mission is to make low-cost portable medical Imaging available to those who need it the most.
Our company, IEMT, has developed and patented technology for a portable, low cost, medical imaging system that, for the first time, can be placed in the hands of first responders and professional practitioners.
Many modern devices and machines rely on external power sources such as batteries, fuel, or electricity from the grid. To enhance efficiency, reduce dependency on charging infrastructure, and enable operation in remote or emergency conditions, these devices could be equipped with self-power generation systems.
The invention is a base pot cleaner to avoid accidents when trying to clean the base of a pot after the content overloaded while cooking.
I created because my grandmother used to have accidents while cooking and when I started to cook for the family I realize about the problem.
I have developed and requested patent for a device designed to prevent children and adults from falling off chairs. A common issue in both home and public environments (primary schools mainly). This simple yet highly effective product provides an extra layer of safety, ensuring greater peace of mind during daily activities.
Page 22 of 1029
