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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Currently in Brazil, many injuries and casualties occur due to wrong side overtaking, by reckless behavior on the part of several drivers. Estimates show more than 20,000 accidents with 987 deaths and aproximately 12,000 injured people. Brazil has small amout of roads with central separation; most of the roads are two way roads,
Working Principle: With a very low budget (around 100 US dollars) we were able to make a full functioning 4-axes pick and place robot. In present situation the dominance of pick and place robot in industries is much higher than other type of robots and they are very costly. Robot we made consist of servo motors(4 nos),
There is exiguity and lots of difficulties in alternative methods which represent satellites services and its implements, according to the high cost of sending and operating satellites. Specifically in the fields of Telecommunications, Research, wild life, Geographic surveying, civilian spying and cities security. My innovation idea aims to provide a sustainable solutions for using satellites.
WindFurnace.com proposes an improved Wind Furnace (UMass circa 1972-1985) resulting in reduced cost and complexity of past wind driven heating systems.
WindFurnace.com is not based on electricity generation but converts rotational energy, from a wind turbine, directly into heat through use of a dynamic heat generator (DHG) manufactured by Island City Engineering of Merrill, Wisconsin.
Wearable Power Modules (WPM) is a modular solution to enhancing human mobility and capability with smart engine powers. The centerpiece of WPM is the power module (PM). PM empowers various modular tools for many field applications.
For field applications, power module needs to meet some criteria:
1. Compact, light, quiet and portable.
2. High power ratio, energy density and fuel efficiency.
The cylinder diameter is typically a few times or more of the stroke. When the piston nears the end of the compression stroke, vertical ridges on the piston, in conjunction with almost mating vertical ridges in the cylinder head, effectively partition the combustion chamber into multiple combustion chambers.
Fig. 1 shows four partitions,
For the huge number of people worldwide who suffer from joint problems and survive with chronic pains and movement limitations, what if we tried to provide them with an easy noninvasive solution which has no side effects that can improve their lives and make their movement easier and not painful?
Instant Cleanrooms
The portable KOACH system produces ISO class 1 cleanroom work space in one minute or less in virtually any environment. No need to wait hours, days or weeks to have a clean work-space. Portability makes the systems ideal for labs, pilot lines or even in cleanrooms where less particle contamination is desired.
Chipper Shredder Description
Ref: Low Speed High Torque Chipper Shredder Machine, Patent 7070132 assigned to Max P. Gassman. Patent was originally assigned to Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.; WebSites:
The following is a proposal for a product that would fit well in the product line of a lawn and garden equipment manufacturing company.
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