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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Whether food scraps in the kitchen,
This invention operates on the principal that fluid pressure increases in direct proportion to depth. It relocates the process of reverse osmosis at depths where the weight of the water produces the pressure required to drive the reverse osmosis process. By some estimates,
Product Overview:
Ensuring Safety of every worker in an organization.
Eliminating manual health check and reporting procedures, which are currently being followed.
Key Features:
‘MASK’ or ‘NO MASK’ detection system ensures every employee following government guidelines and Safety measures.
S.D.F. CAR is a fertilizer soil improving machine that can carbonize and decompose wheat and rice straw in real time.S.D.F. CAR can be connected to the rear of harvester to receive wheat and rice straw discharged after harvesting, carbonize wheat and rice straw into a soil improver through internal high-temperature electric furnace,
Zero X - a portable, low weight and modular testing booth that guarantees zero contact between the tester and the testee, ensuring complete isolation and thus giving us a win-win solution. With its lightweight and easy mobility,
The automotive greases have various metal additives to ensure the properties and retention under various extreme working conditions. However, depending on loss of these elements the grease looses its properties.
We are developing the smallest, lightest, strongest oil-free compressor that aims to push efficiency and reliability to new heights.
theSARCproject is developing an innovative, cutting-edge rotary compressor that aims to push compressors' power, efficiency and reliability to new heights. This rotary compressor technology features lower size, weight, cost and environmental footprint compared to conventional compressors.
India requires a power plant which generates maximum energy and uses minimum land as it is a developing and highly populated country.
After planting and harvesting of groundnuts, well selected grains are pressed using a screw oil pressing machine. During pressing we get the crude peanut oil and the peanut cake. Crude peanut oil is then filtered, refined and bottled in plastic bottles to distributed to supermarkets for sale. The peanut cake can be mixed with other components,
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