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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Urban transportation faces mounting challenges: congestion, pollution, risinging frastructure costs, and growing population densities.
In response, we introduce the Modular AI-Powered Electric Urban Transport Pod System: a next-generation solution designed to revolutionize how people move within cities.
These fully electric, autonomous pods are lightweight,
Key Features and Innovations
1. Micro-Satellite Design
Each unit in the swarm is a 3UCubeSat-class atmospheric satellite (~30x10x10 cm), optimized for suborbital, high-altitude flight. Key features include:
Ion propulsion thrusters for station-keeping and dynamic formation flying
High-efficiency flexible solar panels for power generation
There are 110 million diesel engines in use worldwide, with an additional 10 million added each year. They power the majority of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles used in local and long-distance logistics, including trucks, vans, and commercial fleets. Diesel engines are also widely used in agriculture, construction, mining equipment, marine vessels, power generation (e.g., generators),
Woodly is an innovative new thermoplastic coming from Finland to replace fossil-based plastic.
Woody features are:
Made from Wood
Bio-based content certified (TUV Austria certification 40% - 60%)
Carbon Neutral Plastic (for every 1kg of Woodly produced, it has -0.8kgCO2eq KG footprint, the Life Cycle Analysis conducted by 3rd party,
This entry introduces a NASA-award-winning cryogenic recuperator designed for advanced space-based thermal systems. This design was awarded 1st Place in NASA’s Cryogenic Recuperator Design Challenge on GrabCAD. Official results: , selected from over 100 global submissions and evaluated by a panel of NASA engineers and subject-matter experts.
At its core,
1) The on research and experimental device has special cabin 1 so that the weight of the passengers is transmitted by a series of interconnected double cone wheels units sliding on a series of interconnected v shaped tracts with freedom of side to side movement and tends to be supported by a rigid tube at right angle to the
Dronette is an innovative semi-autonomous drone system designed to deliver essential medicines and medical supplies to remote and hard-to-reach regions of Kazakhstan. The project addresses urgent logistical, ecological, and healthcare challenges, aiming to improve access to vital medical care while reducing environmental impact and ensuring early detection of environmental threats such as fires and pollution.
Application of artificial intelligence in identifying pigmented skin diseases. DermaMarker – system for analysis and early detection of skin tumors.
The scientific novelty of DermaMarker lies in the fact that we have created a DermaMarker platform that scans pigmented skin abnormalities on the body and analyzes their danger using a neural network.
With increasing awareness of mental health problems, speech impediments, and disabilities like Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), many may get tested. Still, they may not have the financial means to afford assistive technology.
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices, such as speech-generating devices, can be out of reach for many. Although they want to give such devices a try,
This innovative project aims at the development of a Drone-Based Environmental Monitoring and Disaster Management System. This system aims to leverage advanced drone technology for real-time environmental monitoring, natural disaster assessment, and emergency response coordination in support of local Institutions.
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