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 approximately 1.8 million manual wheelchair users in the United States and the population is expected to grow at a rate of 10% annually. Seventy five percent of wheelchair users rely on manual wheelchairs. Prolonged manual wheelchair use is directly linked to repetitive stress injuries and pain in the upper extremity.
A practical solution to sealing the Gulf’s Deepwater Horizon’s Leak and the Tool that needs to be in the future toolbox of oil and other companies.
Described is a practical, fully robotic solution for the Gulf’s Deepwater Horizon’s well leak.
The human power tractor allow a man or several to move very large weights. A solid back axle with two 64" tractor tires and a 16" gear. A gear the size of the tractor tire drives it -- this is driven by a 12" gear on thee same axle with a 121" gear.
After the oil spill in in the Gulf of Mexico this is new concept design for a pipeline under deep-sea.
15 years ago, a friend was teaching a class in “Air Brush Usage” and I had some free time, so he let me sit in. I bought a nice “Air Brush” for about /$50 on sale. But, this is all about the hardest part, of using an air brush, by a new user, holding it the “Right” distance,
You have a Two-N-One Umbrella which can be used with or without the slicker. You can roll-down slicker tuck under while sitting at an outside/sporting event; you can personalize the roll-down slicker with your company's logo or ANY logo. You can stay dry while walking from your car to office, home, in the parking lot,
The Space Rapid Transit (SRT) system is a two-stage-to-orbit (TSTO), horizontal takeoff, horizontal landing launch vehicle consisting of a high performance aircraft as the Ferry Stage and a cryogenic rocket powered vehicle as an Upper Stage. Both stages are designed to be fully reusable and rapidly deployable. The SRT has two versions,
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Diesel engines were invented more than one hundred years ago. Continuous refinements have made diesels cleaner, quieter and more powerful. Nevertheless, the basic principles of operation and overall design remain unchanged. For this reason, diesel engines retain several shortcomings they have always had.
Diesels are noisy and hard to start in cold weather.
An optical connector that can deliver data such as video, IPTV over 100 meters of Plastic Optcal Fiber (POF).
This connector delivers 200 Mbts of data and is used for home networking, automotive, industrial, and medical applications. The connector has features that make it deliver the data in a length of 100 meters using plastic optical wire.
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