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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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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Currently one of the greatest problems in big cities, particularly in Mexico City, is mobility. The overuse of automobiles is creating traffic and pollution issues. Public transportation has significantly improved but it is still insufficient to fulfill the transportation demand. This prototype represents a clear advantage not only on adapting to new ways of transportation,
Safety Matches
There are lots of safety matches in the world. But no one guarantees that if I forgot to blow it Out ithen it will not burn my fingers. But our design is a real safety match. If I forgot to blow it out then it will not burn my fingers.
Torch with Acupressure points.
INDIA is one of the biggest consumers of Torches. And in India the biggest users of Torches are the poor security guard, farmers, villagers and the peoples who are still too far away from the electricity.
Consumer -- Engine of product innovations for wellness applications that help reduce stress and increase personal performance, monitor fitness heart rate, remind the person to take medications, monitor activity as pedometer with calories count, trend blood pressure changes, alert for abnormal episodes of ill-health or falls, panic call-button, remote ECG transmission, alerting upon hypoglycemia.
This entry explores the possible use of cloud computing within various aviation systems. An aviation services cloud infrastructure is proposed in order to provide Cloud Computing (CC) to the aviation end user. Such short term applications of CC are reviewed as for real-time flight data and cockpit data storage and analysis.
Magnetic-Levitation (MagLev) rail provides a virtually frictionless way to transport people and goods at high speeds of 300 mph (480 km/h) or more. MagLev trains can be fast, but they are still trains – they must stop and start often, and stations might be far from passengers’ homes or business. As such,
ME2 is an Internal Combustion Rotary Engine. The ME2 is a true rotary engine, all moving parts are balanced and rotate from one central axis. The ME2 (unlike reciprocating piston engines) maximizes its torque output throughout the lenght of its power stroke. Made from ceramic material, it requires no cooling system and no liquiid lubricants. It is compact, lightweight,
A solar powered high speed transportation system that will connect every city in the USA within 10 years. the SKY TRAM system will be less expensive ,more economical to construct and operate,safer and immune to most of the problems the other systems have.
The SKY TRAM cars will be built using recycled airline fuseloges to start with.
A method for termination of tornadoes – as soon as they are noticed on radar and long before they can touch down to become destructive – is proposed.
In the US more than 1,000 tornadoes ‘touch down’ annually, causing significant damage. Current technology cannot predict which events (storms) will become tornadoes.
VBD Automotive Technologies has developed a MAGLEV driveleine for wheeled fuel cell powered vehicles. The driveline known as the “Magnetic Hubless Wheel Drive” (MHWD), essentially allows for the elimination of the high torque output requirement for wheeled vehicles which currently derive their traction/driving force from the torque applied at the wheel hub to overcome the wheel radius.
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