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.
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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In response to the increasing demand for integrated and precise medical diagnostic tools, we introduce an innovative mobile application for the diagnosis of liver cirrhosis, pancreatitis, and ischemic heart disease. Despite existing applications that focus on a single disease,
The RFID and SIM800L GSM-based attendance system using Arduino and DS3231 RTC module is an advanced solution for efficient and reliable attendance management. This innovative system utilizes RFID technology for user identification, providing a quick and contactless method for logging attendance. The system incorporates the Arduino Nano microcontroller, MFRC522 RFID reader,
The Sektet coil is a remarkable application of the Sektet Equation, offering possibilities previously deemed impossible in propulsion technology, and potentially creating a new spectrum in electromagnetic sensors and communications. This groundbreaking mathematical formulation has revolutionized our understanding of propulsion in the cosmos. The equation provides the theoretical foundation for reactionless thrusters,
I have invented, developed, and patented a new type of magnetically actuated valve that can withstand extreme temperatures and pressures. This valve has applications ranging from helping to enable Hydrogen fuels for a greener future to preventing leaks of legacy fuels and industrial chemicals that might otherwise pollute the environment. Hydrogen is a tiny molecule,
The disease of modern civilization is the loss of visual acuity already in childhood and adolescence. What is the reason for this? Often such violations occur due to the fact that modern man has stopped looking into the distance and relaxing. Throughout the day, we look only at the near (in the phone,
The Transensys Multi-Modal Traffic Detection System aims to dramatically improve traffic congestion issues seen worldwide. The amount of time humans spend on roadways represents a significant portion of our daily lives; we have become so accustomed to it that we don’t even question it. A significant percentage of this time is spent waiting at traffic lights.
Reel Free is a MedTech company founded in June 2022, with the aim of revolutionizing the oxygen therapy experience for individuals on supplemental oxygen. The inspiration for Reel Free came from the founders personal experience with his grandfather, who suffered from pulmonary fibrosis and faced numerous challenges due to the cumbersome and hazardous oxygen tubing. This personal story,
Usually they try to increase the efficiency of wind turbines by improving the air flow around the blades, finding the most profitable modes of operation of the wind turbine, finding the best blade profiles, etc. In the proposed project, we are following an unusual path.
NFTG is developing a simple, ultra-quiet, personal air vehicle and drone, capable of rapid door-to-door mobility without requiring any operator license.
It will be powered by one of our patented rotary engines or ultra-efficient and ultra-power-dense turbo-engines of my design.
With an Isp of 175 sec with a density Isp of 1.5, it creates a rocket motor 1/2 the size of a normal solid propellant motor. Although low in Isp, this combination has a very high density Isp making it possible to reduce the size of a known total impuilse by ½.
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