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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Tile Mosaic is an eco-innovative startup that produces high-quality, durable, and affordable construction tiles made entirely from recycled plastic waste. Our goal is to reduce environmental pollution caused by plastic and to offer a sustainable, low-cost alternative to conventional tiles used in construction and renovation.
Traditional ceramic and PVC tiles are often expensive, fragile,
Magnetic reconnection converter (MRC) based on a single-volume plasma (spheromak) with a variable β in the turbulent pumping (charging)/discharging phases of the thermodynamic duty cycle “α-dynamo – magnetic reconnection”. To obtain helpful energy, the proposed MRC uses a cyclic combination of two physical processes:
α-dynamo, generated by controlled turbulence,
The problem of recycling and rational use of leather production waste, especially in recent years, has become relevant all over the world. This is explained by the fact that in the process of producing natural leather, a large amount (30 - 50% of the mass of raw materials) of waste is formed.
FAIR engine replaces the air compression section of a Wankel rotary engine with a secondary combustion chamber; it executes two combustion cycles per shaft revolution. FAIR engine injects Oxygen Enriched Compressed Air (OECA) to accelerate the chemical reaction for thorough and clean combustion, it reduces NOX, HC, CO, etc. emissions.
The Rigid deployable shelter is comprised of 12 wedge-shaped segments that nest concentrically into one another and rotate outward around a central connected shaft in a degree-locked manner to form a shelter. Rapid deployment of the Shelter is facilitated by rotating inner segments around the central shaft.
Purpose of the headwear:
The collapsible protective headwear is comprised of helmet, earmuffs, eyewear, and facemask components designed to provide protection from head impacts, loud noises, and shield the eyes, nose and mouth from particulates when deployed.
There is a maternal morbidity crisis in the U.S. We need to do better. As a seasoned Labor and Delivery Nurse for 20 years I identified a way to positively impact this sobering statistic.
The following is not in the AI madness stream covering the whole world. It belongs to the traditional, conservative scientific research process related to quantum computing.
I am working on identifying technologies that can power military combat platforms in austere environments. With NATO announcing that it will be net zero emissions by 2050, there is a scramble to find technologies that can replace fossil fuels for operational platforms. There are currently no mature technologies that can meet operational requirements. This includes batteries,
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