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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This self contained highway lighting apparatus consists of a base made in the same cross sectional dimensions of existing "K" rails that divided the Highways. This base will have a hole that accepts the drop in style of this lighting unit.
The U.S. is the largest user of energy and also has vast deposits of coal. Existing methods of producing electricity from coal has the problem of releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which increases global warming.
A more efficient method would be to fuel pulse combustion devices with coal gas. A pulse combustion boiler (see expired U.S.
There are three principal methods of heat loss through a window. These are radiation, conduction and convection. Radiation losses may be greatly reduced by means of and IR blocking (low E) coating applied to the warmer side of the window.
This is an adaptation of an ancient system used in the Peruvian Andes to filter solids and transport water since 5,000 years ago. It makes use of two free forces of nature, adhesion and gravity via the well known capillarity and siphon effects using fiber filled conduits.
I have designed low cost mechanisms that when incorporated into computer or traditional desks/workstations, will significantly improve the ergonomic profile of the desk.
This improved, individually customizable, ergonomic adjustability will not only allow a user to experience higher levels of productivity & accuracy, but will also increase his/her overall comfort level. Additionally, it can also help reduce neck, back,
Soft sprays, massaging jets, and multiple showerheads can be combined with mood music and lighting to create a sensual shower experience like no other. Simple cold showers invigorate while hot showers relax. What more could possibly be done with shower designs?
Imagine taking both hot and cold showers at the same time; cold droplets hitting adjacent to hot,
Seventy-six percent of the US population wears some sort of visual aid device. Focusing long-term on a close-range object (such as a book or computer monitor) often leads to eye muscle atrophy. This problem affects a rapidly-increasing number of people, due to an increase in computer use. While some vision-impairing conditions (eg.
The invention provides a single microspherical fiber system which can generate multiple laser outputs. It includes a laser beam at the input end for pumping the system and an output end for the desired laser lines. Pluralities of doped microspheres are adhesively attached to the fiber or inserted into a hollow fiber.
Method of reducing gryoscopic drag in automobile engines.
Remember the spinning "Tops" that we played with as children? The type that, if you set it spinning (perhaps a few hundred rpm) it would stand on it's end as if by magic? We were all amazed at our first demonstration of gryoscopic force.
Today,
The US Interstate Highway System consists of about 47,000 miles of highway. Dividing the highway is a median strip that average about 40 feet in width. Thus, Interstate Highway median strips constitute about 9.93 billion square feet, 228,000 acres of land.
If this land were used to grow biomass whose primary function was to act as a carbon sink,
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