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 AI-Driven Smart Vehicle Tracking and Fleet Optimization System is an innovative automotive security and efficiency platform designed to transform how vehicle fleets are monitored, managed, and optimized. Developed by Sunrise Tracking, this intelligent system leverages artificial intelligence (AI), GPS/GLONASS technology, and real-time data analytics to provide a comprehensive, scalable,
The iHeart fingertip oximeter, with a retail cost of $100, acquires Aortic PWV using a 30 second test. It previously required equipment costing over $20,000 and a trained technician to measure Aortic PWV.
New Patent-Pending Technology for Intercellular Restoration
Many—if not all—medical conditions originate from disruptions at the cellular level. CarboMed has developed and tested a new patent-pending method for intercellular restoration. This breakthrough consists of two major components:
The creation of a novel therapeutic medical agent,
Labeling is failing, not just aesthetically or functionally, but systemically. Across the most widely used plastics in the world, polyolefin thermoplastics like HDPE, PP, TPO, and TPV, traditional labels peel, fall off, or are never able to adhere at all. These materials make up 66% of the plastics used in industries producing long-life products: reusable packaging, automotive dunnage,
This chassis design provides for: 3 pairs of wheels that are arranged asymmetrically to each other.
The purpose of this design is to create two stages of touching the landing gear with the runway, which should ensure a softer landing of the airliner.
The principle is as follows: first, the 1st and 3rd pair of wheels must touch the ground,
All existing methods of cancer treatment target the continuous physical space within the human body. Thus, the cancer cells and the healthy cells are hard to separate, so the healthy cells are being damaged and cancer cells are being missed.
After more than 30 years, there are still only 10 deposit law states where consumers are incentivized to recover their 5 or 10 cent deposits on beverage and water bottles and containers.
Yet, the evidence after 30 years shows that in deposit states, 75-90% of deposit bottles are returned, just so consumers can recover their deposits,
I have successfully used a next-generation dielectric compound for coaxial cable that utilizes a polyolefin dielectric material with a dielectric constant comparable to Teflon but is entirely PFAS-free. In addition this compound has the lowest specific gravity of any solid thermoplastic polymer.
This innovation is particularly beneficial in deep-water environments. In these challenging applications,
A modular genomic engineering device designed to repair, replicate, and reintroduce complex lifeforms across the biological spectrum. Created as a conservation tool and a regenerative medical platform, representing a convergence of synthetic biology, AI assisted gene editing, recombination and interspecies ecological logic.
Unlike single-purpose laboratory instruments,
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