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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WIRELESS REMOTE CONTROL AC-DC RAIL GUIDED PROGRAMMABLE TRANSPORTER PLATFORM MACHINE’ => Patent CA 2295193 A1 -
VERSION-01 – Waste-Container’s unchallenged competitive advantage design featured is a perfect system solution replacement for by the girls/boys/women/men hand-push-pull-carry type waste-containers, garbage-cans and traditional-utensils in residential also commercial areas,....
INSTASHAKE™
The first instant drink and supplement preparation system that enables you to “Make Your Instant Drink Instantly" with 21st century self-dissolving packaging technology.
The current ways of preparing instant drinks and supplements are messy, time-consuming, and wasteful. InstaShake™ solves all of these issues.
Aren’t you sick and tired of the mess you end up generating,
The present photovoltaic (PV) cells use only about half of the light spectrum provided by the sun because the infrared part is not utilized to produce electricity. Without storage or backup generation, PV systems are not a continuous and reliable power source. As a result, they have high energy cost of manufacturing, installation and maintenance. In solar thermal systems,
Aisthesis in ancient Greek means "perception" and perception is the result of information received through the five senses. Imagine a device that stimulates all 5 senses, which send us the feeling of being in another place, to "teleport" us elsewhere. This is Aisthesis.
Born as a travel device that during a flight, a trip by car or train,
The easy to fly Fying Segway is a personal electric octa-copter with computer assisted stabilization. It has many uses. It can be flown manually or pre-programmed to fly autonomously navigating by GPS guidance. It can autonomously fly to any location and then be used to return rescue injured flyers & soldiers behind enemy lines, lost hikers, climbers.
The EyeOnRoad System intends to predict the road anomalies accurately and alerts the vehicles. This system introduces a new technique to detect road anomalies (bumps, potholes, cracks, expansion joints, patches, etc) automatically, using sensor fusion technique. This system integrates the road anomaly information with the existing navigation system which forecasts the distance, type &
People use a wet cotton strip to reduce temperature caused by fever. They put the wet strip on the forehead and after the strip dries they again dip the strip in the water to wet it and continue do this method again and again. This method takes a lot of time,
My aim behind desiging this machine was to make easier and faster work for the worker working at the construction site. This machine consists of the 3 level screen system, which is used to separate different grades of material like coal, pebbles, agricultural material and etc.
Our Vision and Aim for this Project.
Our vision is to provide each and every user of electricity with the best possible chance of finding a green energy with zero emissions and no environmental impact that can influence our life on earth dramatically.
About the Project.
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