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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Since the discovery of x-rays 110 years ago, affordable x-ray sources have all been point source x-ray tubes, in which x-rays are generated at a single spot on an anode by a single electron beam accelerated at high voltage across a vacuum gap. Generation of x-rays from a single spot,
A variety of measures have been taken to minimize the power consumption of modern electric and hybrid vehicles in order to maximize their range between charges. From an aerodynamic design, to regenerative braking mechanics, manufacturers are creating new ways to harness and reuse the energy lost within a moving vehicle.
A number of companies are working on propulsive atmospheric return in attempt to develop reusable Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing space vehicles. They all use at terminal descent the same controls –vectored trust, usually by a gimbaled engine used at ascent. Despite extensive testing, reliable pinpoint landing has not been demonstrated yet.
The Jala pampa is a water pump
that filters 99. 9 % of
the bacteria in water.
It does this with a ceramic
filter that is located
Car cum aircraft cum hovercraft transportation system & Overpass transportation system, or fastest ambulance in the world.
Design Statement
Car cum Aircraft cum Skater cum Hovercraft (Vehicle drives like as a car, aircraft, skater, hovercraft).
Vehicle looks like as a car, has wings on both sides (improvements in wing technology can be done with modern techniques),
We have chosen to utilize the vortex energy generated at airplane wingtips to generate electricity and power non critical parts of the flight, hence increasing the fuel efficiency.
It is an aspect of wingtip vortices, which has been studied very little in the past.
Milner Motors AirCar Dare to Imagine the Future!
500 miles. 3 hours door-to-door. Anytime.
The AirCar is a completely self-contained four-door, four-seat advanced-composite road-able aircraft (flying car) with foldable main wing in the rear of the vehicle and a canard in the front. For trips up to 1,000 miles,
SEE THROUGH FLUID and OIL FILTERS
CONCEPT:
Clear View Filtration’s Patented Filter Assemblies were designed to be used as an oil filter for internal combustion engines. The sight window allows visually inspection of the fluid or oil pumping through the filter, this helps determine the condition of the fluid.
GearRail™ is a low-cost, easy-to-assemble linear motion system that is constructed from simple 3D printed parts and common off-the-shelf hardware components. This novel system is being released as open source hardware under the CERN Open Source Hardware License (Version 1.2).
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED
Personal manufacturing devices such as 3D printers, CNC routers and milling machines,
The exigent global energy shortage and air pollution problem is also affecting our prosperity. One way to address both of these issues is to make carbon-fuel-utilization more efficient.
NFTG is developing several extremely-robust, low-friction, highly-scalable & configurable,
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