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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— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.
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Water is one of life’s necessities, yet for over 700 million people, a clean and reliable source of water is out of reach. Especially prevalent in remote and low-resource regions, water insecurity claims over 5 million lives every year. In these areas, 
Consumer exploitation has been one of the major problems facing most countries especially where a fixed price policy has failed. You will experience that in most of our banks, hotels, supermarkets, and other product and service providers, the prices of the same product/service, brand and quality varies from shop to shop.
Freedom1 has a radically tapered front end , including the bumper, the hood and the nose. If this vehicle is about to collide with another vehicle or structure, all the driver must do is steer 6"
Kuma: Electric Vehicle for micromobility
Today, traffic jams and pollution are a part of everyday life in big cities and they have become one of the main problems for the quality of urban life.
In recent years, the number of cars has increased dramatically due to its prioritization over other transport modes.
But as with any roof rack,
The X-drive is an elegantly simple device designed to improve the quality of life of wheel chair users. Its design was developed using interviews from wheel chair users and industry retailers/manufacturers. The X-drive fills the need for an inexpensive and convenient method to convert conventional wheel chairs into powered wheel chairs on a permanent or temporary basis.
Excess heat is a problem in electronic systems. Traditional solutions involve conducting heat energy away from the heat generating device through a heat sink to be dissipated to moving air or liquid.
FRUGAL 5 CYCLE ENGINE
The Frugal 5 Cycle engine design solves the 120 plus year old goal of combustion at constant volume, which is the most efficient way to combust the air/fuel mixture in a piston driven internal combustion engine.
With true constant volume combustion,
My Proposed Project:
5/8" Drive Hand Ratchet system with a 3 piece 50" long Telescopic Handle with a group of Hand/Impact Sockets.
This system is to allow a mechanic tighten or loosen bolts (or fasteners if no bolts exist) easily. The system will compliment the 1/4" Dr, a 3/8" Dr, a 1/2" Dr and the 3/4" Drive Ratcheting systems.
The first reusable lotion bottle that serves a dual purpose. The bottle doubles as a pump dispenser and transportable tube. The sustainable packaging innovation is refill ready and dispenses 100% of the content inside!
Aside from the lotion pump that's made of up to ten components,
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