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.
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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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This is a different approach to a bird scarer.
When the batteries hold enough charge (not a full charge) the energy supplied by the small but efficient solar panel, is fed to a low power, high torque planetary geared motor.
The design relates to a novel dual modality system for performing thermal keratoplasty and in-vivo ocular A- scan ultrasonography using high frequency focused ultrasound for the treatment of presbiopic astigmatism and hyperopia by changing the shape of the human cornea.
With a market for hardware embedded system larger than 100 billion USD, the protection of these systems against various threats has become a significant issue. The vulnerability of the microsystems against side attacks has been evidenced by P. Kocher in 1998. Side-attacks rely on the recognition of the “signatures” of data transfers and of executed instructions,
What problem does your design idea solve?
Rotary wing platforms are flexible and powerful solution for a range of missions such as medical evacuation, rescue, courier and transportation. However, these aircraft are in danger to collide with terrain features, obstacles and other flying aircraft, especially in bad visibility conditions.
It works on rainfall rate. When the rainfall is more then the wiper actuates very quickly. When the rainfall is slow it means the wiper moves slowly. According to intensity of rainfall the wiper works. it consists of sensors, actuators and cup and wiper mechanism .
Using a variation of the technology used in optical trackballs and mice its possible to track eye movement and position and focus.
With CAUTION (you do not have to try this) try holding your mouse to the outside corner of your eye, with the light shining on the white of the very outside,
India has more traffic congestion than any other nation in the world.Traffic congestion is a serious problem in most Indian metros. The scorching pace of economic growth and the growing incomes of India’s burgeoning middle class are only likely to make the situation worse. Public transport systems are overloaded,
A new model for a solar chimney power plant (SCPP) with a square-based pyramidal shape, having three sloped solar collectors (each having the shape of a trapezium), a cylindrical collector, a chimney and a field of sun-tracking mirrors, has been abstracted.
Today there is the high demand to have the cheap and large displays that are transparent to the light.
There is some simple and easy way that could you imagine taking the look on the modern lights that we use on the New Year for the decorations.
The start of widespread use of drones was a significant leap for the world's military & other agencies. Most, if not all designs however, are limited to a particular role.
Current fielded UAV/UCAVS, such as the MQ Predator/Reapers on one hand, primarily employed in surveillance & ground strike roles, lack a real capability of performing air combat &
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