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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Although various three-dimensional technologies have been developed in recent years, few are able to display real time 3D images and video from any angle in the same way an object would appear to us in the real world.
Harvesting energy effectively is of paramount importance to maximize energy production capacity. In order to produce electric energy eternally without fuel, I have successfully developed a new concept after spending several years of research. This is the ever needed permanent solution for sustainable energy needs. This device can generate power, eternally. It generates power from action/reaction and back EMF,
Our magnetic gear is an innovative solution designed to transmit power in challenging applications. It is based on a unique design, which offers a robust and efficient gear.
How does it work?
We call it a magnetic gear. You could also call it torque converter.
In a developing nation with a large population, the agricultural sector has its own importance in terms of revenue and food security. Modern methods of farming are not economically and technically feasible with small farms in the country side. The proposed economical product facilitates the farmer by providing automation in spraying the fertilizer on their crops in the farms,
Growing demand of energy is almost everywhere, leading people to think of using it more efficiently. In this regard, we are proposing the auto-light unit, which has many pros over the existing similar products in the market.
Working:
Above mentioned PIR sensor based automatic light, senses any movement within 7 meter radius range. Take an example of a corridor,
Plastics are an important part of our daily life, starting from the tooth brush, water bottles, plastic bags -- it is as important as air.These plastics are posing a serious threat to the environment due to lack of proper recycling and waste treatment measures. Especially in India where open dumping and open burning of plastics is common.
The patented "Ogunmuyiwa Engine Cycle" for such engines with their cylinder axes arranged substantially tangentially to a circle centred on main shaft axis, takes advantage of this geometry to carry out the combustion during the compression stroke of the cycle without damaging the engine.
With the success of “New Space” companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin, there is a renewed interest in low-cost private launch systems and space exploration in general. Governmental space agencies, especially NASA, are working in partnership with emerging private companies. Yet the barrier to entry has now shifted to the requirement to be an Internet billionaire. Mr.
Our team has developed a thin film technology of amorphous carbon nitride, and applied it in the field of infrared optical lenses to provide protection for infrared optical lenses. Long-term research and test proved that the technology can provide effective protection for the infrared optical lens in the conditions of high temperature, high humidity, low temperature,
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