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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The utility model relates to the field of refrigeration, and more specifically to electric household refrigerators, intended for use in everyday life, trade, food and other types of production.
During the operation of household, display and other refrigerators, a significant drawback in the cabinet design is the bulky one-piece door,
Chemical manufacturing is responsible for close to 30% of the global energy demand, and innovative solutions are needed to reduce the impact of CO2 emissions released from energy-intensive chemical processes.
In March 2020, a declaration of ‘Global Pandemic’ was issued by the World Health Organization in response to outbreak of the Corona Virus January 2020. Consequently, the WHO issued recommendations to lessen the spread several airborne vectors. One recommendation, easily accomplished, has come to be termed, ‘social distancing’.
After the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, many people preferred home-office solutions to protect themselves from catching the virus. But in so-called system relevant sectors like public healthcare, that is not an option. These people have to get access to a comfortable and effective way to protect themselves,
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Discovered Discrete Geometry Relationship between a Non-Regular Icosahedron and the other Five Regular Solids, of possible interest to Scientists.
Under the current exposure to the virus [corona] conditions one should not hesitate learning possibilities of accepting and use of new discoveries and particularly those bearing “change of paradigm,” with the involvement of discrete geometry.
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COVID-19 is a disease that started in December 2019 in Wuhan, China [1]. COVID-19 is a type of pneumonia caused by a virus belonging to the coronavirus family that affects the pulmonary alveoli and generates respiratory failure [1,2]. According to reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) [3],
Vehicle manufacturers are faced with a difficult task of significantly improving fuel economy and safety while maintaining a competitive position in the market. This can be accomplished, among other things, by utilizing higher strength steel for cars and trucks. Newly developed high strength steel for car powertrain and transmission components (GEAR-Steel) can help accomplish just that.
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