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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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) seeks partners interested in the commercial application of the Polyimide Wire Insulation Repair System technology. NASAs Kennedy Space Center is offering companies licensing for this innovative wire repair technology.
The Polyimide Wire Insulation Repair System is a kit consisting of thin film polyimide patches,
Researchers at NASA Kennedy Space Centers (KSC) Corrosion Technology Laboratory have developed a smart, environmentally friendly coating system for early detection and inhibition of corrosion and self-healing of mechanical damage without external intervention. This coating will have the inherent ability to detect the onset of corrosion in the coated substrate and respond autonomously to control it.
Our team is currently working on the development of a new concept concentric rotary engine. The technology we are developing is a novel approach of the internal combustion engines (ICEs) and, based on the CFD modeling and analysis,
Desalination of seawater is the only possible solution to the current water crisis. Increasing populations will require more and more water every year. Water levels in aquifers throughout the world are dropping because man is consuming the water faster than it is replenished by nature. Drought conditions in many areas exacerbate the problem.
In the year 2015, the hot weather in India caused lots of people to die.
I designed a house with a special structure which can make it cooler in the house than outside. The house is made by a special structure which has special thermal property. The roof and the wall of the house is made of a honeycomb structure.
Solderdoodle Pro is a portable, cordless, USB rechargeable soldering iron. It is based off my original Open Source project: "Solar Powered Soldering Station"
Solderdoodle Pro does what other portable soldering irons have failed to do, and that’s the ability to last hours above 700ºF and charge the soldering iron from a USB port.
'Can i get a glass please..!'.. comes in almost conversation when we go McDonald,KFC or any store to grab a bite..!
Here i have tried to come up with a simple, new,reliable and aesthetically sound product, "Crushed". It is a disposable glass which can be used to have your drinks. It will make the packaging and disposing very simple.
Create The Future Entry
Electrical power plants supply around 20% of their output for lighting. LED lighting can reduce this demand by around 80%, however this is not perfect. Driver efficiencies are typically 80-90% and low cost solutions often suffer from high flicker, inability to dim by legacy dimmers, poor colour rendering and unnecessarily limited life.
I am using the full daytime/daylight charging cycle for my Humanoid. Of course I have not managed to get energy out of zero, yet! What I am planning is to partner up with high density, green battery technologies such as the urine fuel cell developed in the UK.
The project deals with the development of a home automation system.
Watching the market I recognized that the common so called smart home seems to be nothing more than a collection of devices which are remotely controlled by your smartphone.
In times when local authorities have more control over your smartphone than you,
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