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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We have developed a modular personal telemetry device. It allows you to determine a person's physiological data and environmental parameters. The system consists of two modules. One of them is attached to the patient's chest with a special strap. Its design includes built-in electrodes for measuring ECG, skin resistance, and chest expansion.
Apexzlink Multimodal Logistics Marketplace is a digital solution that facilitates the booking, management and streamlining of shipment request process for customers, drivers, and companies using various modes of transportation like a combination of trucking, rail, and shipping. (e.g., road, rail, sea, air) in a single, integrated process. It will digitize the worlds of supply chain management and logistics, routing,
From the biology literature review a number of biological principles for how animals self-organize, communicate, and signal in the context of collision avoidance for group navigation became apparent. From this two main principles of biologically inspired connectivity – aposematism and bargaining – have been identified (West, Griffin et al.
The X650 Thermal Drone is a next-generation aerial system built for real-time thermal imaging, inspections, and search missions. Unlike most commercial drones that are locked into proprietary systems, the X650 features a fully modular, open-platform design, supporting third-party thermal cameras, HD video systems, and onboard processing.
In the beginning of June of 2025 the fact was realized that any given three phase generator can be manipulated into a twelve phase generator by proper sizing of the permanent magnets on the rotor.
This entry presents an end-to-end AI-based system designed to autonomously categorize retail products and extract key information for supply chain optimization, quality control, and retail analytics. The solution utilizes a multi-modal deep learning pipeline combining image classification, optical character recognition (OCR), natural language processing (NLP),
High-speed police pursuits remain one of the most dangerous routine activities in modern law enforcement, contributing to thousands of injuries, deaths, and costly property damage each year. Existing methods to intervene, such as spike strips, PIT maneuvers, or roadblocks - often escalate the risk to officers, suspects, and civilians. To address this challenge,
While the world focuses on exhaust pipes, a silent polluter hides in plain sight: our tires and brakes. Non-exhaust emissions (NEE) from tire wear and brake dust can constitute over 50% of urban traffic-related particulate matter (PM2.5/PM10). This invisible, toxic dust—a problem exacerbated by heavier electric vehicles—clogs our air, contaminates our water,
This innovation introduces a Hybrid Transmission System (the System) that goes beyond conventional mild hybrid configurations. While typical setups manage only torque from the internal combustion engine (ICE) and electric machine (EM), this System enables precise control of both torque and RPM, placing the hybrid set consistently near its maximum efficiency range and avoiding high-emission operating zones.
Oblique Wing research-driven design addresses the aerodynamic inefficiencies of conventional symmetric wing configurations at high-speed flight regimes by proposing a structurally optimized oblique wing (OW) configuration. Unlike conventional sweep-back designs, the OW incorporates a single-pivot, asymmetric wing structure capable of variable sweep adjustment,
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