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.
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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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My product is an author's work, which will reflect the beauty of nature, its elegance and individuality. Through this work I would express my respect and love for nature. Using my work I want to develop in others a sense of beauty. Creative product may be used in interior design, house, classroom or shop.
Wintergardens and many other buildings run hot during summer time. If there is no control, it might be rather hot in the rooms, if sun burns down.
The invention is not really big, but it works fine: if the sun shines, the sun produces some electrical energy by a small photovoltaic panel.
Fuel cells that directly convert chemical energy into electricity meet the demands for the clean energy industry of the future, primary owing to their striking advantages of the high-energy conversion efficiency that is not limited by the Carnot cycle, low/zero emission, and reliable and simple structure. Currently,
Name: Skin Model
Slogan: Don't think that beauty belongs to us alone. Use "Skin Model" to test cosmetic products!
Tagline: Fighting animal testing!
The cosmetics industry makes billions of dollars annually. Not only women of all ages wear makeup, but also men do. However,
A device for transferring electrical energy to neuronal tissues via well-understood concepts of physics, specifically the body of theory contained in transmission of energy by magnetic resonance.
This is a compact device which serves to provide a localized application of electric circuital currents to electrically-engaged tissues, designed to operate at the characteristic frequency of the user.
This idea came from the analysis of why symmetric-multi-processing (SMP) architectures failed to perform well when given an intrinsically parallel software task (circuit simulation in Verilog) - despite being able to get as many as 48 CPUs on a chip these days, simulation acceleration usually tops out at about 4x on 8 cores.
Connectors with wire sealing were developed for use in applications where waterproof protection and rugged construction are required. Waterproof protection is achieved by means of a wire seal which is inserted onto the wire and crimped simultaneously with the insulation support of the contact.
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