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.
Help build a better tomorrow
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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“At COMSOL, we are very excited to recognize innovators and their important work this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to support the Create the Future Design Contest, which is an excellent platform for designers to showcase their ideas and products in front of a worldwide audience. Best of luck to all participants!”
— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.
“From our beginnings, Mouser has supported engineers, innovators and students. We are proud of our longstanding support for the Create the Future Design Contest and the many innovations it has inspired.”
— Kevin Hess, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Mouser Electronics
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The design of the transmission system for a formula styled racecar using a stock bike engine is one of the best choice for all the engineering students who design the motorsport vehicles for all the student race car build competitions. As there are many rules and restrictions on engine usage such as capacity, maximum power allowed,
This heat retention solar oven works like a greenhouse, allowing sunlight to pass into the pyrex bowl while also retaining heat. Inside the bowl an absorption container filled with dark-colored rocks will act as a heat sink that absorbs sunlight and will heat food placed on top of it.
HomeEasy is all about you. We understand that selling your home and buying your dream home shouldn't be so hard and expensive. You are already investing a lot and on top of that you have to chase after your realtor and pay him a good chunk of money to sell your property or find you a perfect Oasis.
Smart Elements is an innovative system of smart low-power products, comprised of Blue Nodes connected wirelessly to Base Stations that allow farmers to remotely collect data over long distances. Thousands of different existing sensors are currently deployed across farms and industrial sites, 
What health care problem does this device solve?
The evolving field of the microbiome, the microbiome is "the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms that literally share our body space". This term was created by Joshua Lederberg to point out the importance of the many microorganisms inhabiting the human body,
The Spiral Magnetic Motor (SMM) is novel and unique since it has been proven to accelerate a permanent magnet rotor through 90% of its cycle with only permanent magnets, thus potentially providing a clean, inexhaustible source of constant torque for use as a motor or generator. The principle of applying an inhomogeneous,
The VForce® invention is a major evolutionary step in fixed wing aircraft development. High lift devices (flaps/slats) have not significantly changed since the invention of the Fowler Flap by H D Fowler in 1924.The invention provides a lighter,
1) How it works
a. This system replaces the clutch system for manual transmissions with a locking torque converter, variable vane oil pump, and a clutch pack which will operate as the clutch system for a manual transmission. Components will include a computer-controlled valve body which controls when the clutch pack engages and when the locking torque converter engages.
Introducing the Up! App
One of the biggest challenges manufacturers face today is machine downtime. When a machine goes down, it’s costing a company revenue, profit and reputation. There are also often long wait times to receive service.
A win-win for service requesters and providers
The Up!
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