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.
Help build a better tomorrow
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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“At COMSOL, we are very excited to recognize innovators and their important work this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to support the Create the Future Design Contest, which is an excellent platform for designers to showcase their ideas and products in front of a worldwide audience. Best of luck to all participants!”
— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.
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Melanoma, a type of skin cancer, is usually visible, can be cured if caught early, and affects millions of people per year. Most people, even highly motivated to monitor skin changes, have poor visual memories for patterns and feature shapes. *Early diagnosis saves lives*.
INTRODUCTION
A major contributor to global warming is the burning of fossil fuels for various activities. Passenger cars consume billions of gallons of petrol or its derivatives each year to power their internal combustion engines. About 53% of usable energy from the engine goes into overcoming aerodynamic drag. Nearly 40% of the car’
Charging Mini Pad for Quadrocoper, Drones, Helicopters. Can be used for Security & Surveillance. To be mounted on top of buildings,
When you’re walking in the hallways, have you ever imagined building an extra cool device, which would enable you to navigate large objects without sight?
Well, let’s meet the ULTRASONIC HAPTIC VISION SYSTEM. It uses an ultrasonic rangefinder that interfaces with the user via tiny vibrating motors and allows the user to wear it on their head.
Water, Water, Everywhere Project
By Putting America to Work
Author: Manuel Altobano
Oxnard, CA
USA
Sky Tram is a wind and solar-powered high speed transportation system that aims to connect every city in the USA within 10 years. The Sky Tram transportation system will support innovative R&D with its culmination of technologies and services. Sky Tram provides an efficient and advanced renewable energy solution regarding transportation and mass transit.
In last few decades, many attempts have been made on person identification using biometric and non-biometric features. The main objective of person identification is to ensure that the services are accessed only by a legitimate user.
ABSTRACT: BIOPLASTICS or organic plastics are a form of plastics derived from renewable biomass sources, such as vegetable oil, corn/pea starch, Microbiota. Kanjivellam is ‘Malayalam’ word for the water (vellum) drained from boiled rice (kanji). Rice water is the suspension of starch obtained by draining boiled rice. Here, starch is extracted from Kanjivellam &
The goal of this Project is to be able to recognize different emotions in EEG by the
use of a computer and signal processing. By recognizing it the Human Machine Interface (HMI) is developed for a machine to react to humans emotions.
My entry is to use my new cell phone application designed to daily program the subconscious and conscious mind toward successful goal achievement, getting rid of bad habits, and creating new habits in 21 days. The App opens a convenient tool for creating “command statement” affirmations using “your name” followed by “YOUR ARE” affirmations. Example: “
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