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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In today's world as we know pollution is a very big nuisance for all. What I am proposing is a molecular sieves air filter that reduces NOx and other harmful chemical substances coming out of the exhaust pipes of vehicles. Using this filter allows for better combustion characteristics and less harmful exhaust.
At home or at work, we often need to lift and transport large and heavy objects. We can ask our friends and co-workers to help us, rent a fork-lift, or even purchase an exoskeleton. All these options are inconvenient, expensive, and result in loss in productivity.
The technology developed is a piezoelectric stimulus-response quantification based gravimeter (PEG). This innovation takes a completely novel approach towards utilization of the piezoelectric element by quantifying the gravitational effects on them--they can not only generate an electric charge in response to mechanical deformation, but can also be mechanically deformed by applying electric charges,
The idea of this project is solving the problem of natural user-interaction with Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) objects through creation of mid-air tactile sensations for related industries (e.g. Microsoft Hololens).
When we hold a “real” object, visual and haptic feedback allow us to feel and interact with it.
We are developing a sophisticated electric-assist vehicle idealized for network sharing in urban and suburban areas. This vehicle, dubbed "VeloCar", is sustainable by utilizing battery power, human power, solar power, and regenerative braking.
The VeloCar will be fully enclosed to protect the user from inclement weather. Furthermore, it includes cargo space which provides practical functionality for running errands.
The technology developed is a monitoring system that includes a base station and at least one sensor unit mounted some distance away, which is in wireless, one-way communication with the base station. The sensor lies dormant until it receives a voltage trigger from a vibration-sensitive switch which consumes no stored power from the battery. When activated,
Our team at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center developed a highly accurate method for measuring liquid levels using optical fibers. Unlike liquid level gauges currently on the market that rely on discrete measurements to give broad approximations of liquid levels, Armstrong’s innovative fiber optic method provides precise and accurate measurements. Specifically,
In vitro studies of cell behavior are an essential prerequisite in determining in vivo responses to pharmacological agents, cell therapies, biomaterials, and implantable devices. However, culturing mammalian cells on a conventional Petri dish is not an accurate representation of the in vivo environment and as a result cells behave in a way that may not be medically relevant.
This new steerable recreational exercise sportcraft is a treadmill mounted between two floatation pontoons. When a person walks or runs on the treadmill, his motion ultimately propels the craft forward or backward with its 360 degree steerable propulsion. The tread is a continuous belt mounted on a set of several parallel rollers wrapping around, under,
With an Auxiliary Driver equipped power drill, you can drill a pilot hole and drive a screw in the hole using only one hand!
The Auxiliary Driver is a supplemental drill/driver that works with all power drills, drivers and rotary tools.
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