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.
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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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Introducing a unique, slip fit, self-locking adapter for mounting ball bearings onto a shaft. The Torksleeve BC design provides superior radial and axial locking that allows the bearing’s inner ring to fit concentrically with the shaft and offers full bearing support which eliminates shaft fretting. The Torksleeve BC features slip fit of the bearing onto the shaft,
My concept proposes an air purifier that works similarly to natural plant leaves.The leaves of this artificial decoration plant will have holes or openings in the upper surface through which the impure air will be sucked in.This impure air is released at the bottom of a container filled with air,
Always when there are torrential rains there is a threat of flooding of basements of houses.
In such cases in each house it is necessary to have an inexpensive, effective special pump and independent electric generator. The basic component of the Floating Unitary Vibratory Pump is the vibrating pump (or pump of other type).
Who was never shocked by millions of people driving alone in their family car going to work every day? The following invention can be a beginning of an answer, but not only.
In most hybrid vehicles of series-parallel or parallel type,
Generally, a LAN wire is used to access network communication (Laptop - Laptop LAN connection). But having additional pins than in a LAN wire, there is a chance of even charge transfer if required.
This technique can also happen by connecting the LAN wire to the LAN port and the Laptop (LAN PORT - Laptop).
For example,
Black or dark colored in the winter and white, silver, or light colored in the summer, Color Shifting Energy Conservation Houses optimally absorb sunlight in winter and reflect it in the summer dependent upon the seasonal angle of the sun and intelligent use of color shifting paint.
My concept proposes for a remote controlled dog collar that works on the simple principle of electromagnetism.
USE:-Pet owners can unchain their dog or pet just with a press of a button it may be when it is their feeding time or when a thief enters a person’s home.
This novel electricity generator is capable of supplying all our power requirements, thus solving one of the earth's critical needs.
An electricity generator of this invention functions using known electromagnetic principles that simply have not been applied previously. They do not function in the manner of all current-art electricity generators,
Classical industrial robots need actuators to be as stiff as possible for placement speed, accuracy and delivering high force. With robotics now moving into applications that require greater adaptability for handling soft or fragile materials and for avoiding injury when working with humans, robotic actuators are increasingly required to offer controlled compliance.
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