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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Many houses burn to the ground by just a few embers that fall onto the roof. My design would resemble an oversized covering that would resemble a shower cap. The material would be metalized such that the embers could land without starting the roof on fire.
Of the cellular phones in service at present the overwhelming majority use the standard 12-key phone keypad. This device codes the standard keypad to emulate the full typewriter keypad by requiring two keystrokes for each key, as described in detail on my web page:
Because the device is strictly a software solution,
Prefab Solar Wall supplying both home heating and domestic hot water
Replace an exterior wall with one or more solar modules, ready for easy insertion in construction. Transform the external structure, renowned as an energy disperser, in a collection and heat transfer system with a south facade of automatic thermal diodes.
For people who care about the size of their waist line, this is a digital version of a waist line measure.
This is any regular belt of choice but with a buckle that helps in recording your waist line size. Outside appearances is like any regular belt and no one will notice any difference,
People have tried to make the bicycle more efficient and easier to ride for centuries. Some have succeeded, some have failed. The failures have been when someone has tried to get more torque to the rear wheel with a given input. This is where I have succeeded.
This rocker crank extension is the 3rd generation of crank extensions.
Facts: Water comprises two-thirds of the human body. Water comprises three-fourths of the human brain. Clean water is essential for life on Earth. Stormwater runoff from streets and roads is the major uncontrolled source of water pollution in urban areas. The recognition of this source of water pollution is ever increasing.
Keeping and caring for a dog outdoors has many challenges ranging from providing and protecting the food and water to keeping our pets warm and dry. My approach to solving this myriad of problems is first to mount the house up off the ground at a reasonable and safe distance on a 2" steel water pipe.
The patent pending Automodal system automates the loading and unloading of semi truck trailers on train cars. Now, time sensitive freight can be transported via railroads removing the diesel guzzling vehicles off our highways.
It works like this: A truck driver positions a semi trailer onto an Adaptor Plate (similar to a large automation pallet), unhitches the trailer,
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The main theme behind this idea is to develop a self chargable mobile device that works on the phenomenon of piezo electricity.
Working principle:
We know that whenever a stress is being applied on the peizo electric transducer, a certain amount of potential develops across its leads which can be utilized to feed the load.
Using the same principle in this mobile,
The name of my invention is the Carrier Pro, and pertains to the games of Golf, Tennis, and Baseball.
Presently, when far away from their caddies, golfers carry their golf balls in their pockets; tennis players carry the tennis balls on their sleeves or pockets, and in baseball, the umpire, who throws the balls to the pitcher,
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