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.
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“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.
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TO COUNTER SWARM DRONE ATTACKS
Drones have become common in modern times. From photography, to delivering goods. to mapping terrains, to military applications they seem to have become ubiquitous and in fact indispensable.
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There is a growing trend of increasing total power capacity and volumetric heat density in modern data centers. Next-generation electronic components generate high heat fluxes, requiring advanced and efficient cooling methods. The low energy efficiency of traditional air-based cooling systems is driving the shift toward immersion and liquid-based cooling solutions.
We have developed a novel method, dubbed thermal processing & coating (TP&C), for manufacturing surface coatings that can replace the traditional hard chrome plating. The TP&C surface treatment allows one to combine exceptional mechanical properties obtained due to heat treatment with an enhanced tribological performance and corrosion resistance.
Artificial intelligence system with "PSOC™ 6 AI" that detects when the blender changes speed and gives an alert via voice module and LEDs. So, this device that detects when the blender is in operation and when it is off. But in general,
PCDA delivers a 5–
Using ESP-MESH network protocol is an innovative way to monitor my plants and provide them with water, both indoors and outdoors. ESP-MESH is a networking protocol built atop the Wi-Fi protocol,
SUPERSONIC AIRCRAFT PROPULSION PROBLEM
A major challenge confronting the development of supersonic passenger aircraft is the need for a propulsion system which can:
meet the current stringent stage 5 noise requirements during takeoff and landing;
operate efficiently at subsonic and supersonic speeds.
THE PROPOSED PROPULSION SYSTEM
This is a computer mouse that communicates with the computer using light as the form of energy, rather than electricity. (There is no category in this contest for this device).
The Light Mouse is a passive device with few parts, making it inexpensive to manufacture. The Light Mouse is not to be confused with an optical mouse which requires a cord or recharging.
This is a concept to use a material like salt which responds slowly to changes of temperature, to provide a house with the summer’s heat in the winter, and winter’s cooling in the summer.
Shown is a horizontal heat sink (salt, concrete, etc.
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