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.
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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Today space debris traffic is one of the most critical concerns for space researchers. The current population of space debris is divided into small fragmentation debris of about 42 %, satellite and rocket bodies debris of about 17 % and dead spacecraft debris of about 31 %.
As technology changes our lives, it also changes us. Technology has become embedded deeply within our lives, it is part of our everyday communication, from simple text messages to social media. Digital communication is changing the way that we communicate to others, not only through technology but face to
face as well. Research, through interviews and literature reviews,
This new approach of tattoo power supply can easily eliminate the conventional cross-contamination in the typical tattoo power supply where the touch is mandatory to adjust the output power. By using the magnetic bracelet, all control of the power supply is made touchless. In addition,
There is no global, mandatory reporting requirement for shipping containers lost overboard at sea. Obviously the companies responsible would rather not mention that they regularly drop containers into the world’s oceans.
Currently the World Shipping Council estimates that 2,700 shipping containers are lost at sea each year.
California is suffering from its largest drought in recent history. It also happens to be the most populous state and a major agricultural producer in the United States. This is going to have increasingly detrimental impacts to our traditional farming and food production industries.
My proposed solution is to assemble and sell a turnkey version of MIT’
The turbo - propeller differs that its blades are mounted on a turbo - platform.
This turbo - platform has two operating modes. In both modes it supplies the bottom blades with more dense air.
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Emphasising on the notion of dynamic walking, Reflex spots an elastic shoe design which ‘blossoms’ on contact with the ground.
Autonomous, mobile and decentralised power supply for the electrical operation of lighting equipment for information boards, of sensors and electrical components, of microsystems, smart phones and mobile computer technology is increasingly gaining importance. Under the spatial conditions of solar radiation autonomous power generation by solar cells is in many cases suitable to perform this task.
The design relates to a three-dimensional fixation device for treating complex displaced clavicle fractures and preventing nerve injury.Fractures of the clavicle present very common injuries during sports and traffic accident. Painful neuromas and numbness across the shoulder and upper chest wall due to injury of the supraclavicular nerve are complications following plate fixation and subsequent plate removal.
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