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.
Listen nowThank you from our Sponsors
“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
contest
Contest
Superconductivity, a quantum phenomenon allowing electrical current to flow with zero resistance, is traditionally achievable only at cryogenic temperatures. At its core lies the formation of Cooper pairs—bound pairs of electrons mediated by phonon-electron interactions. This proposal explores a novel concept: utilizing precisely tuned photons (light) to modulate phonon dynamics,
I am writing to express my deep concern and sadness over the recent wildfires that have severely affected Los Angeles. The devastation caused by these fires is truly heart-wrenching, and my thoughts are with all those impacted.
In light of this ongoing crisis,
The challenge:
Renewable fuel based on alcohols, like Methanol, Ethanol and Butanol, show great advantages not only in CO₂ reduction, but also in the engine’s efficiency and its maximum performance. They are however more difficult to vaporize than gasoline, which means difficulties at start up and in general when it is cold.
Rotor drone uses aero foil types rotor blades. With deep study on rotor drone and aero foils blades found that drag forces acts on the aero foils. So that fly times very low. So inspired a rotor drone new rotor mechanism by coil wrapped magnetic attraction by simple with relay switch. Fluttering was able to make.
Our product is a next-generation, biodegradable, drug-eluting ureteral stent designed to address critical challenges in urological care. Current stents, typically made from non-degradable materials, are associated with complications such as encrustation, biofilm formation, and urinary tract infections (affecting 5–10% of patients), as well as the need for secondary surgical removal,
You're looking for a **vehicle design** with an emphasis on **communications, power, and safety subsystems**—that sounds like an autonomous or specialized transport system. Here's a structured approach to synthesizing such an **AutoPod assembly**:
The general components of the pod shall cover an ideal combination of the navigation propagators in land, air and water.
This improvement of an aerofoil compensates for side winds.
Large trucks produce excessive greenhouse gasses due to inefficient reciprocating engines and complicated gearboxes. This hovercraft would be much better because it eliminates friction with the road surface due to flexing tyres and suspension. It can also run on alcohol, a non fossil fuel, which can be produced from corn.
First impressions of the Messerschmitt bubble car might be that it is an inferior vehicle, but read what Wikipedia has to say about it. Designed by Fritz Fend, a designer of fighter aircraft, it broke all records for a small engine vehicle on the Hockenheimring. A modern version would be bigger to accommodate better seats .
Project Locker has two parts, the first part leads the way two the second part.
Traditional ceramics, while offering exceptional hardness and durability, are inherently brittle, limiting their use in applications requiring both flexibility and impact resistance. This study investigates the mechanical performance of soft, multilayered ceramics, focusing on how hexagonal tile size, adhesive interlayer thickness, and layer configuration influence flexural compliance, penetration resistance, and energy absorption.
Page 42 of 1029
