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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A zero maintenance hydroponic planter allows local food production in arid environments with minimal water consumption and eliminates detrimental runoff.
My device consists of
1) The reservoir
2) a fixed-position seed grid
3) a planter section
As mentioned in the title, the Black Pearl is obviously an iron ferrite coated monster that is not as fast as the SR71 or won't fly as high, but it has a host of latest generation of smart weapons, munitions, and bombs...
We are very happy to present our project named “CONVERTI-GO,” because it comes with a very noble thought and future view for India.
The main objective of this project is providing an easy, compact and affordable flying car especially for citizens of India and the world. This project, along with being less expensive is also advanced in technology.
Automated vehicles are destined to be the next revolution in transportation. But what comes after that? PRTProject takes transportation to the next level. It recognizes that rail is more efficient, safer, and less expensive to maintain than asphalt It recognizes that electric vehicles work best when you aren't reliant on large batteries.
The Path to Net-Zero through Ground Source Heat Pump System and Solar means generating enough extra power to have zero energy cost at the end of a year and/or provide extra energy for your neighbors.
First evaluate your energy needs for your home or for a new home making sure you have utilized passive design ideas, insulate walls,
I am a Conceptual Designer & an Inventor/Innovator, my latest innovation and Invention is a Cat Litter Disposing Tray Design which comes in 3 almost identical tray parts. All trays are of identical size and they insert into each other firmly.
The Beacon Safety Light ( BSL) is being developed to aid in the evacuation of a structure fire. The statistics are staggering. Every year over 3000 people are killed in fires, many as a result of smoke inhalation, Another 17.000 are injured.
Competition Brief:
The standard computer mouse is outdated, boring, and has very limited functionality. Most mice don't feel comfortable to hold and feel cheap as well. When a mouse has buttons - there is a limit to the speed with which you can click, based on the mechanics of the buttons themselves.
Abstract :-
As far as my project is concerned , it is a wireless controlling droid which can be used to give the virtual presence of any human being at any place across the world. Let us take an example to give a better view of my project,
A caster where the swiveling portion is internal. There are two vertically disposed, horizontally spaced-apart rollers located on a horizontal roller axle mounted in a yoke attached to the bottom of a central shaft. The central shaft has two bearings supporting it with two central core spacers.
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