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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For a hundred years or more we've designed our roofs wrong! For stores and warehouses we made the mistake of creating a thick envelope with no natural light that traps the heat, and then we spend large amounts of money in lighting and cooling! That's the equivalent of sitting in our sofas,
A method of creating a permanent record of Force-time or Load-time using inexpensive pressure sensitive strips. These strips change color with applied pressure, the color being equivalent to the pressure applied.The strips are commercially available. The mechanism proposed increases the utility by giving a time resolved history of the load or force or pressure applied.
Parking has been a hassle for decades, and yet is a necessity. Everywhere we go we spend a large chunk of time looking for a parking space. The most common solution are Parking Structures, but these are very expensive, unsafe for pedestrians and take up a large area.
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The new brēth Green™ air purifier offers consumers a way to use the dynamic biology created by a plant's life cycle to remove and digest “chemicals” (volatile organic compounds) that are present in all homes and built environments. This patented process is the only fully lab tested,
Iowa State University and North Carolina A&T State University are working together to develop a smart virtual reality system (SVRS) for engineering students to continue manufacturing lab during the COVID-19 pandemic period.
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Mechanical vibrations are forms of energy that can be found in the human walking movement, and this kind of energy could be harnessed for small local electricity generation. This entry consist of a floor that absorbs mechanical energy from impacts or vibrations, and by electromagnetic induction, converts this movement into electrical energy for small consumption applications.
This paint brush has a simple stamped piece of steel overmolded in the handle. With this the user can now open a paint can without having to look for a separate opener or use some other tool.
The protection of the environment has become one of the most important issues in the U.S. Many entities ranging from federal programs to small non-profits, have been making efforts to help preserve our planet for future generations. However, in order to significantly reduce our carbon footprint, Page 261 of 1029
