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 screwdriver harness is a potentially life saving device. It allows the dental clinician to work intraorally with a hand held implant screw driver without the concern of unintentionally losing contact with the screw driver and risking the possibility of aspiration or swallowing by the patient.
Crest spray and mist actuator has a sleek modern design, suitable for delivering high performance and end- user experience. It is designed for hair styling and personal grooming; it is compatible with a wide range of valves bag on valves and standard LI valves.
The standard smartphone dimensions are: 7cm wide by 14 cm high 1cm spessore.
We are proposing a three foldable screens smartphone, utilizing same technology as the two foldable system just introduced in the market. With a total screen dimensions when unfolded of 21 cm width by 14 cm high,
Hydrostatic Bicycle Executive Summary
Hydro Bike is a breakthrough in the field of bicycle transmission. It presents the next evolution in bicycle drive. Comparing traditional bicycles to Hydro Bike is like comparing a car’s old mechanical shifting gearbox to the ®Tiptronic - Infinite variable gearbox in use today.
Nowadays,
A fabric able to detect the presence of liquids on its surface. The Liquid Sensor is an advanced textile layer able to detect any type of liquid drip present on its surface. This sensor is stretchable, and it is possible to sew it onto other fabrics, like bed pads. The sensor is made by skin compatible materials,
What Problem We are Solving
The problem we have solved is meeting the need for better and more nutritious meat substitutes that possess the ability to have multiple healthy components placed in the product matrix. Examples include microencapsulated flavors, alga's, and Cannabis extracts.
As the present population ages and succumbs to attrition, younger consumers,
Accurate load forecasting plays a key role in economical use of energy. Artificial Neural Network (ANN) models have been extensively implemented to produce accurate results for short-term load forecasting with time lead ranging from an hour to a week.
Create a returnable plastics lottery system where reverse vending machines are used as "slot machines" () and where any (authorized) plastic item could be deposited and where only very occasionally would the depositor win a (relatively) large dollar amount prize.
Reverse vending machines have already been invented () has been proven over many years to work effectively. That is,
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