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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— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.
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Harmful algal blooms (HABs) pose a significant threat to aquatic ecosystems, fisheries, and public health due to the excessive growth of toxin-producing algae driven by nutrient pollution. This project presents a novel, eco-friendly solution utilizing a consortium of algicidal bacteria, encapsulated in biodegradable polymeric beads, designed for targeted and sustained control of harmful algal blooms.
The Next-Gen Smart Wheelchair is an advanced mobility solution designed to empower individuals with physical disabilities, including visually impaired users. It integrates Braille-script controls for seamless navigation, ensuring inclusivity and ease of use. A GPS module with voice assistance enhances real-time location tracking, helping users navigate safely while allowing caregivers to monitor movement remotely.
We are AVA Venture Studio, and we are revolutionizing access to justice by leveraging the power of LawTech, a disruptive field that fuses intellectual property (IP) with cutting-edge Frontier Technologies (FT) like AI, Blockchain, NFTs, IoT, Avatars, VR/AR, and Cryptos. Our mission is to democratize and modernize legal services,
NanoArchitech's is a Climate Tech Award Winner in 2025 . The team has a proven innovation history of disaster preventative nanoceramic structural insulated panels which have withstood Two Category-5 hurricanes in the Caribbean.
Our proposal introduces a groundbreaking building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) system that seamlessly embeds perovskite solar cells (PSCs) onto layered nanocomposite panels.
We've developed our unique SRM as a prime-mover, converting DC electrical energy from the solar panels into mechanical energy. This mechanical energy is then transferred via direct coupling to an electrical generator which converts the mechanical energy into clean electric power free from harmonic distortion. Our SRM is efficient, compact and reliable.
As a lifelong reader, I was inspired by the book, “The Diamond Age” by Neal Stephenson. In the book, a very advanced AI embedded into an indestructible book helps a little girl overcome her circumstances. This is my conception of a similar idea using extrapolations of current technology in the fields of material science and very advanced manufacturing.
Understanding how cells behave and change within living tissues is essential for advancing medicine-whether it's studying how tumors grow, testing the effectiveness of new drugs, or exploring how the immune system responds to infection and injury.
Our team has created a new powerful imaging platform called dSLAM (deep and dynamic simultaneous label-free imaging of autofluorescence and multiharmonic).
Electrochemical Alternating Current Luminous Power Regulation System for Non-Dimmable LED Luminaires
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The electrochemical regulator uses electrodes with an electrolyte in equilibrium, preventing reduction and oxidation at the electrodes. It operates with alternating current and is capable of varying or regulating the luminous power of LED luminaires that are not originally designed to be dimmable. The system, through its advanced technology,
A number of tactile methods were implemented for use by blind people since Braille alphabet was invented. Braille alphabet is difficult to recognize by average person.
This document describes mechanical implementation of electronic displays used in numerous devices such as calculators, public displays, etc.
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