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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“At COMSOL, we are very excited to recognize innovators and their important work this year. We are grateful for the opportunity to support the Create the Future Design Contest, which is an excellent platform for designers to showcase their ideas and products in front of a worldwide audience. Best of luck to all participants!”
— Bernt Nilsson, Senior Vice President of Marketing, COMSOL, Inc.
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Our 3D Skin Cancer Virtual Reality (VR) Patient Immersive Viewing System
We are developing diagnostics & therapeutics for human basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma, and melanoma. This skin cancer group comprises the most diagnosed cancers worldwide of all cancer types. This project involves the utilization of a Virtual Reality System for skin cancer screening,
We are currently in a race to find methods of storing energy that can be used for future electric vehicles and to store the massive amounts of renewable energy as we transition from a fossil fuel energy system to a clean, renewable energy system. Unfortunately,
Using an assistive device that facilitates the movement of people with disabilities or problems in the lower limbs, hips, spine, or due to obesity. It prevents falls and allows for rehabilitation. It completely or partially relieves the weight of the body that the legs support when they, the spine, or the hips are damaged, also due to obesity.
The AquaPing is an ultra-low power smart sensor that provides stand-off acoustic water leak detection, even for leaks behind walls. No contact with plumbing is needed. All signal processing and analysis occurs on the device, so no audio is streamed to the cloud and eavesdropping is impossible.
When pressurized water escapes from a seam, crack,
Have you ever noticed how dirty the front wheels of vehicles are? Do you know why? Brake dust!
The wear of brake pads and disks is a ubiquitous source of secondary emissions in all urban centers around the world!
Reducing secondary emissions in the automotive sector is a critical step towards a sustainable future,
Aircraft, one of the biggest carbon dioxide producers worldwide, do not have a viable alternative. Electric aircraft are slow and extremely short range. Hydrogen powered aircraft have a more normal range but require specialized equipment while still remaining slow and expensive. Synthetic aviation biofuels do exist but are significantly more expensive that fossil fuels.
The PWRJoule business strategy is centered on the development and market introduction of Magnetic Flow Batteries (MFB) to address energy storage needs in the distributed energy resources, (DER) and transportation.
The MFB leverages iron-based electrochemical mixture,
For the implementation of decarbonization at the industrial level, it requires the establishment of mechanisms through which environmentally friendly energy sources can be provided.
The S4 BACnet ecobee Integration enables whole building optimization by bringing ecobee Wi-Fi thermostats into the BACnet ecosystem for large, complex commercial buildings.
Finally Quiet! is the first patented medical-grade technology that neutralizes vibrations in the patient's jaw during dental procedures, significantly reducing discomfort and accelerating procedure time. Our system also halts the progression of noise-induced irreversible hearing loss among dental staff,
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