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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Laminar is a reusable toothpaste tube that can be infinitely refilled with your favorite toothpaste.
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The tube is both fluoride and dishwasher safe and is designed to work as a traditional syringe. After you have emptied your tube, you take it to your local drug store or pharmacy, plug it into a refill station,
Manaola Innovations aims to solve the problem of lack of modern technological intervention in many medical devices, particularly the gait trainer. Gait trainers currently on the market are often bulky, uncomfortable, and hardly customizable. This hinders the quality of life for the individuals reliant on these products to function in their daily lives. To solve this problem , Manaola Innovations, Inc.
This drive mechanism does not use chaindrive or shaftdrive but has efficiency as chaindrive (in terms of gear teeth engagement) and requires less frequent maintenance. It also provides gear ratio.
Basic idea: Use internally toothed gear to rotate the hub of the wheel. It also uses part of rotation energy of the wheel for anti-tipping mechanism.
Drive mechanism,
Axial engine is important for various application like power generation aircraft propulsion. Axial engines like Duke engine requires more than five cylinders. construction is complicated and bulky for small power applications.
Provide an e-vehicle conversion kit using my patented (US Patent 9,124,144 B2) dual radial gap, high-power density, low RPM DC electric motor in a direct drive application to convert conventional IC powered vehicles to full electric power. These kits can be configured to provide direct drive power to any front or rear drive vehicle.
The reduced rate of healing for chronic wounds affects the quality of life of the patients and leads to significant socio-economic burden. These wounds do not heal in a timely and methodical manner and can lead to ulcers and other long-term effects. Repeated trauma,
Wankel type rotary engine is endoskeletal engine epitrochoidal piston housing in which lubrication is a major challenge and central shaft is continuously under high temperature. Among many disadvantages there is loss of fuel during rotary flame propagation. through sectoral chambers. Compression ratio is also low.
Every year, there are about 1.3 million road traffic fatalities, more than 50% of them pedestrians and vulnerable road users in an urban environment. Global efforts to reduce the number of pedestrians’ fatalities are struggling to achieve their goals. A major contributor to this problem is the global urbanization trend,
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eXoutcancer has invented a revolutionary technology for earlier lung cancer screening to diagnose the disease when it is more treatable. Lung cancer is the the number #1 killer among cancers and the current screening modality, a low dose computed tomography (CT) scan, is utilized in only 5% of the high-risk US population.
Steering mechanism of quad bikes, cars, military vehicles etc are based on rack-pinion gear mechanism whose moving parts often get exposed to terrain conditions like boulders and ice slabs in cold countries. These land features may hit the rack gear.
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