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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US Patent Number 7,726669 B2. I watched people at craft shows, flea markets and catering events struggle during set-up, dragging a dolly with their items on it along with a collapsible table under one of their arms. I united both in a dolly that flips out through a foot release and hydraulic struts into a table.
Our mission is to revolutionize manufacturing across industries with our innovative technology for additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, of metals. This patented process is unique and differs from others because there is no melting of the metal. Because it can be scaled to manufacture very large parts,
This invention was aimed at providing a survival support to a person,who lost his hands in an accident. Basically he was a farmer. But as mater of fact, weeding always been a great problem for farmers. That is to be performed either with hands or using machinery drive or manual rotary type weeder.
In a total hip arthroplasty (THA), arthritic bone ends and damaged cartilage are removed and replaced with a hip implant. Over 800,000 total hip replacements are performed worldwide annually. Total hip arthroplasty is one of the most clinically successful surgeries and improves quality of life for debilitating hip disease patients. Nevertheless, 
Reusable noodle soup bag that can easily separate soup and noodles, and can rapidly mix them for an enjoyable meal.
The most annoying issue of taking out noodles soup is that noodles will be immersed in soup and soaked up the soup after arriving home. Consumers usually ask to separate soup and noodles into different bag,
Cold Springs and Solar Ponds as Natural Power Generators
Cold springs can be used to cool the cold side of Stirling Generators that when even air cooled have been shown by Sandia Labs to be more efficient than the most efficient photovoltaic cells.
An easy peel Deo is a paper-based deodorant container wherein you can peel the container for better usage. It is composed of a recyclable paper formed in a cylindrical tube with slice strips dashed lines.
Temperature being a very important concern to all warm blooded animals including human beings, every animal has its own temperature regulation mechanism to tolerate and/or adapt to the varying environmental temperatures. When the external/ambient temperature is not in the tolerable range of say 20 to 40 degrees (not referring to the standards here),
New multimedia language
We are still dealing with words, whose communicative system is writing based on the pen, now keyboard, as the main instrument and reflecting a six thousand years old technology, writing. The scope is to communicate a concept, an idea, an order, anything. For that purpose we must develop a new common language,
The Melni Connector is a revolutionary new electrical connector designed to splice secondary (600v and down) electrical wires in direct burial and submersible applications. We initially made a splash in the industry when we went on ABC’s Shark Tank to pitch our connector and get additional funding to bring our products to market. Page 350 of 1029
