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.
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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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EXTRATERRANOVAS: (VIRTUAL PLATFORM FOR THE EXPERIMENTATION OF GEOSPACIAL TECHNOLOGY, GPSSATELLITE TRACKING AND THE DESCRIPTION OF RADIOASTRONOMIC DATA).
EXTRATERRANOVAS. It is a computer program that works as a set of tools to study the behavior of the protocol in experiments of global information infrastructure that involve the combination of satellites and terrestrial fiber optic networks.
In recent years, the automotive industry has been focused on weight reduction activities in order to reduce fuel consumption and environmental problems. Regulations aiming that focus are especially obligatory for the OEMs. AHSS and Aluminum are generally used in the automotive industry for weight reduction. However, it is recognized that there must be alternative materials to reach the targets.
According to the report of the World Federation of Deafblind (WFDB) around 1.56 million people are deafblind which is 0.2 % of the total human population and 2 out of every 100th person in the world is suffering from “Milder forms of Deafblindness.” For such visual and hearing impairment,
The mission of this device is energy savings. I call it Green It, but any name can be applied. It's designed to detect and report common and sometimes costly failures when added to an HVAC system installed in most homes and small businesses.
Current state of the art in HVAC systems provides a building with heated air,
Problem: The subclavian vein is accessed in about 2 million central venous access procedures performed annually in the US. This could be for hemodynamic monitoring in critically ill patients, delivering chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, and pacemaker lead placement. Unfortunately, 88,000 of these procedures will result in a painful and costly pneumothorax, or a collapsed lung,
The first mobile App that can protect you from vehicles: IoTs and Mobile App that sends the smartphone's GNSS coordinates to a cloud where artificial intelligence predicts potential collisions and then sends alerts to vehicles to slow down and trigger brakes automatically before any accident
Purpose of the idea: the creation of an advanced and economical solar-powered electric vehicle that does not pollute the environment, and also uses a motor wheel. The task of the idea: to create environmentally friendly and economical transport. The object of the idea: a solar-powered electric car using a motor-wheel.
To counter climate change, the world is moving towards clean energy, but still, energy is generated through fossil fuel due to its need on a large scale. Therefore it is necessary to use our electricity in an efficient manner. Our product ‘Intellica’ tackles this issue by the phenomenon of load balancing in the distribution of power,
Falling is the leading cause of accidental death in the over 65 population, but unlike diabetes and heart disease, there is no early warning for it, until now. The Zibrio SmartScale is the first balance measurement device to bring cutting-edge science to the consumer market. It enables home users to measure and track their balance with a simple, Page 243 of 1029
