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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The project is connected with a new approach for drone range/operating time improvement by using an Ecological LPG powered onboard micro power genset.
The frame is contructed in a way that tubes incorporate LPG tank - shaped in a way not to influence the flight control.
This invention was inspired by the recent spate of aircraft crashes in which the “black boxes” were damaged or unrecoverable, and (by comparison) the existing, semi-automatic buoy system used in modern military submarines.
Lexcelon, LLC, a startup based in Lexington, KY, is developing a complete battery testing system for 18650 lithium cells commonly found in laptops, electric vehicles, and other consumer electronic products. The Batlab’s low price-point and modular design enables hobbyists and small commercial battery pack assemblers to create high-performance, high-efficiency battery packs typically only achievable by R& 
The proposed portable energy generation system will enable the conversion of either wind energy or solar energy, whichever is available, into useful electricity to power increasingly vital electronics. It is a collapsible wind turbine, integrated with solar cells.
The proposed technology utilizes an innovative design to combine a wind turbine with solar cells,
One of the burning issues in the world is the problem of food. There are more than 7.3 billion people on the planet and this number is constantly increasing, which requires more and more food. A lot of vegetables and fruits are spoiled and thrown into landfills in some regions, worsening ecological conditions.
A Portable Surgical Guide with Laser System for Abduction and Anteversion Measuring
This device set assists to accurately position the acetabular cup in hip replacement surgeries.
Advantages to using this system are:
1. No expensive and large equipment required in the operating room.
2. This is a single use hand-held device that can be used with multiple acetabular reamer driver brands.
Dual-inverter Precise Power SystemOver 8,500 Capstone microturbine generator sets are currently in service. Twelve have been providing continuous precise power to the Syracuse University data center since 2009. As the electricity consumed by the data center becomes heat, substantial cooling is needed. This is provided by absorption chillers using the hot turbine exhaust as their energy source.
Mobility Assist () and supported by a Research Foundation of SUNY Technology Accelerator Fund award. It assists elderly and disabled people with lower-body debilitating ailments to comfortably stand up, sit down, and walk with fall arrest and stability support. Unlike any other product in the market,
The invention refers to a generator for thermal power and electricity with the electrical co-generator function, which, through the regeneration of a part of the energy consumed and by conjugation of the physical conversion phenomena developed during operation, converts the reclaimed energy in order to replenish the cogenerator.
This converter solves multiple problems for the energy industry. It can develop and modernize the national power system. Also, it can be applied to inventions that are superior to existing power technologies and it can extend the scope of theoretical research and practical application of energy systems.
Improving energy systems is done by increasing their power,
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