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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There are an increasing number of products available designed to help us “go Green” and reduce our consumption of electricity, gas and water in our homes. With so many great products on the market, and more coming, which are best for my family and which will yield the best results?
Military/Police/Security Forces need cheaper, yet just as effective NIJ level IV protection from heavily armed adversaries. The Salamander Research And Development design is lighter, cheaper and “greener” to produce; as my design does not require a Kiln/Sintering oven to produce “plates”. My design is also very flexible as it has very few limitations to potential sizes or shapes.
Royalty rode in elegant carriages, made comfortable with steel springs. As speeds increased carriage makers (and subsequently automobile manufacturers) added dampers, coil springs and anti sway bars to improve comfort and handling. Some innovative suspensions even incorporated load leveling devices. Underlying all these technologies, spring steel reigned supreme.
We are in the century of the communication.
Each human being could get in touch with another on the opposite side of the globe.
We daily chat with people in different and far sides of the world.
Cell phones give us all we need: talk, write, movies, music, television, computer applications, gps…
OK? we are not sure.
SemiNex Corporation developed a low cost, hand-held laser system for treating facial skin wrinkles and acne. The device is available in lower powers for the home consumer market and high powers for general practitioner use. The wireless laser device is the size of an electric razor and contains a programmable controller, rechargeable battery, laser engine,
It's an electrical system consisting of
(a) disc rotor
(b) a set of transformers
to generate electric power for any application.
It is aimed to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, Solar, wind,water head, ocean waves etc. for generation of power.
WarmSpring improves access to a valuable source of heat. Since 1989, a product has been available which utilizes attic space heat for warming a swimming pool. During the warm seasons, this product allows the roof and attic portion of a house to function as an effective solar collector. For this application,
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Porcupine Quill ceramic heat exchanger promotes both - free air circulation and maximization of caloric transfer capabilities. The ceramic has half the weight of copper and three-quarters the weight of aluminum and is resistant to most corrosive or abrasive effluents with caloric conductance of .375, relative to that of copper.
Solarsphere is a glass sphere bisected with a polished reflector, a photovoltaic sun/target tracking sensor wired to a rechargeable battery ballast that contains omni directional propulsion. The Solarsphere rests on a plenum duct with a circular cutout.
The Solarsphere is intended to be mass produced to keep component costs minimal.
On the Road Social Network
I thought of a system of easy communication between vehicles to report emergencies, anomalies, or simply to talk (social network on the car)
So if you're in the car and, for example, you see a guy on a car in front of you that has a flat tire, you don’t know this guy,
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