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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In support of Wireless Access Points and Wireless Networks I propose utilizing the T-Bar grid as zone antennae. A designed T-Bar element that is connected to the Access point to provide coverage.
PROBLEM 1: Global climate change is one of the world’s biggest challenges.
Climate change is recognized as a major issue worldwide. The rising atmospheric temperatures and rising ocean levels are largely attributed to increases in greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).
GHG mostly consist of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) The GHG absorb heat and release it gradually over time.
There is an urgent need to develop a cost-effective and portable electrochemical biosensor for the early-stage detection of ARS-Corona Virus-2 (Sars-CoV-2). It would play a crucial role in the rapid screening of the Sars-CoV-2 carriers and can help to reduce the further spread of COVID-19 disease.
Conditions in space such as microgravity and no extreme wind conditions allow the construction of a big umbrella with a parabolic profile shape to focus sun rays in a small area to achieve high temperatures in order to analyze and process materials on space.
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The maturity of the technologies for the guidance and control of UASs allows proposing innovative operational options such as the ability to spray a significant amount of an agent of any sort at a pre-established point in the atmosphere.
This is the case of NitroFirex,
Relevance and novelty: for the first time ever, rocket and space equipment production and extraterrestrial macro engineering will be moved off of the Earth. This is like sending the first man into Space.
No proactive short- or long-term space exploration is possible without developing special-purpose earth orbital infrastructure: cargo platforms, storage, production, residential, scientific,
Most teabags are made from paper, with a small amount of plastic used to seal them shut. But some premium brands have switched to using greater amount of plastic mesh for their product instead. This is usually so that the tea bag held in a pyramid shape, which producers claims helps the tea leaves infuse better.
Our project title is smart baby belt. As mentioned in the name it will be useful to babies. In our belt we have sensors to detect moisture in the diaper, to detect the location of the belt, to detect the temperature of the baby who is wearing it.
We see so much waste in rivers, canals, lakes nowadays. And there are many ways to clean them but using of this aqua bin which uses IoT technology makes us easier to do our task. Mostly the lower wait particles,
Clean solar cooker as replacement for hazardous log-fires
Until today more than 3 billion people rely on open fires for cooking. Their cook stoves are predominantly based on burning firewood or charcoal and used indoors without sufficient ventilation [IEA (2016). "World Energy Outlook 2016"]. According to the WHO,
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