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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Due to the lack of natural predators, the populations of many animals have steadily encroached into suburban settings. These animals, most notably deer, have become a significant hazard to drivers leading to many accidents and deaths.
The ED-Tag combines cutting edge technology with the spirit of adventure.
The tag can be worn as a necklace by every child to be in reach whenever it´s needed. The semi-translucent OLED Display with die dual camera system on the back of the device allows playfull and easy access to information.
TRANSPORTING without ACCIDENTS or ENERGY at just a few percent of today’s cost.
• Profitably occupying the idled work force
• Returning that lost economy
• In an unprecedented efficiency of TIME, ENERGY AND RESOURCES
All in a practical application of reliably known abilities. Whose manner in form and processes are ECOLOGICALLY & ENVIRONMENTALLY sound.
If you live in a smaller town you are all too familiar with waiting at stop lights, sometimes thru more than 1 cycle. Stop lights cause tremendous waste of energy and pollution when you consider that fuel does not burn as efficiently when a vehicle is accelerating from a stop light,
The process of rapid medical evacuation requires that medical information be reliably transferred from station to station with the injured warfighter. This proposal puts forth a concept that will allow for accurate, secure, and reliable transfer of this medical information.
In place of the standard military id tag,
1) Technical field of Invention
This Jar Opener is an original tool, used to open jars or bottles and it is based on the fact that inside any jar, there is a vacuum effect, created when the jar is sealed and the lid is held tight in place by a friction force.
Many homes without dishwashers exist, and an issue becomes the amount of time to clean each individual utensil without a dishwasher. A small device which can be put in your kitchen sink for homes without dishwashers can be designed which can connect to your kitchen spiggot and use a tub to clean all of the utensils at once.
The novel idea is in the Basic Unit, composed of two covers, which constitute the bed, that can be used independently of the mattress. These male and female parts have measures and holes in the appropriate configuration, to assemble themselves in different forms depending on the necessity to constitute itself into a bed, one bed, bunk beds,
Since the mid-1990s, electronic waste has been recognized as the fastest-growing component of the solid-waste stream as small consumer electronic products such as cellular phones have become ubiquitous in developed and developing countries. In the United States alone, consumers annually throw away about 47 million computers and over 100 million cell phones,
I have invented an efficient way to capture energy from the sun using a hyperbolic chamber that draws air through its center by way of convection and differential pressure created by the sun and wind flow. The second part of my invention is a unique DC generator that has very low AC losses.
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