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.
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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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Addressable light fixture controller is a simple and small electronic device designed to be used in a single switch with multiple light fixtures configuration in a room. This configuration is often found in large kitchen, living room, family room, and master bed room in an average house. This configuration is also found in office, conference room, class room, etc.
Milner Motors Plug-in Hybrid Kit-Car
The Milner Motors ElectriCar is a four-door, four-seat, plug-in hybrid electric kit-car car designed to be efficient, stylish and affordable.
The vehicle has a fiberglass skin over a steel frame and weighs 1250 lbs. It drives 100 miles on battery and at speeds up to 85 mph.
Agricultural machinery has witnessed innovative advancements from the days of hand tools to modern GPS and computer driven modern tractors where little human intervention is needed. Advancements have even led to a few agriculture robots. However, these robots are for a single use only and cannot be transferred to other agricultural tasks.
The Sisi (or Sili) Cup is a silicone cup that would be a reusable replacement for a paper or Styrofoam cup. It is a consumer product that would have the same feel and some of the insulation of a Styrofoam cup, but more flexible and foldable (or flatten-able) resembling a paper cup.
Flute shape system, its related applications
Design Statement
Objects moving in air have to face aerodynamic forces.
Let's assume that object is in conical shape and have continue groove (like flute on drill tool) travelled along the periphery (starts from conical point and ends on another end) with spiral path.
The Quick Harvester System with Manifold and Heat Exchanger uses waste heat to start the grain drying process on the combine instead of post-harvest in the grain dryer. This system is more applicable in locations with combine harvesters where grain is tough at harvest. North America, Australia, Europe and some of Asia,
Bluetooth Vehicle Theft Prevention
The recent surge of vehicle burglaries in the LA area through hacking into remote entry devices prompted the design concept of measures to maintain the integrity of the vehicle security. Hackers are currently able to hide themselves a substantial distance from the target vehicle and clone the remote entry upon use.
The Quick Harvester System with Manifold and Heat Exchanger uses waste heat to start the grain drying process on the combine instead of post-harvest in the grain dryer. This system is more applicable in locations with combine harvesters where grain is tough at harvest. North America, Australia, Europe and some of Asia,
Pyra is an advanced oven designed specifically for production on a 3D printer. Aside from the electronics and a few hardware components, Pyra is completely 3D printed. It combines the versatility of FDM technology with advanced cloud-based intelligence, defining the convergence of direct digital manufacturing and the Internet of Things.
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Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a non-invasive therapeutic technique that uses a magnetic pulsed field emanating from coil windings to induce neural action potentials in the brain to address a variety of neurological and physiological applications.
TMS therapy, which has been FDA approved for treatment of major depressive disorder (MDD),
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