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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The “Eco-Intelligent Bike” is an individual vehicle. The concept of this bike is well-balanced between new technologies and natural. The shape of the frame was designed to look like a man bending down to the ground. The front wheel would be his arms and the rear wheel would be his legs.
This is a self energizing Heating & Cooling furnace and air conditioner. Concept of this is to use 1/3 less electricity than your ordinary furnace. All furnaces have a blower motor, a heating source and air conditioning source of either gas or electricity.
CEM Fire Pump
Innovation and simplicity of design
Fire fighting requires every advantage that can be employed, as quickly as possible including CAFs which involves the mixing of air, water and surfactant into white foam that breaks down the surface adhesion of just plain water and allows the water to penetrate deep into the wood extinguishing the fire.
The Microturbine Sun Tracker is a Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) unit in the category of Solar Dish Engines. Reference figure 1. A 4Kw electric power output Closed Brayton Cycle (CBC) engine, in this application, will attain heat energy from a solar dish. The solar dish will concentrate the solar rays to a receiver,
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Finally there is an alternative to the common tweezers. H-Square Corporation introduces the new, easy to use Nu-twEZers™.
Used throughout the semiconductor, biotech and many other industries, tweezers have not changed much in 500 years when they were first commercialized. Artifacts of crude tweezers are dated from around 300BC.
This invention could be a modern version of a bassler wheel with the use of logic, timing and force with load moments of intertia this machine will produce energy using gravity as a motive force.
The CEM Engine
Innovation and simplicity of design
The Cylindrical Energy Module Engine or CEM is a new technology for a more efficient conversion of power from fuel. The basic CEM Pump concept was invented and patented in 1991 by Eddie Paul. Using this basic CEM design,
Sunlight is the most abundant renewable energy resource with
an intensity of approximately 1kW/m² and over 1.5×10²²J
(15,000 Exajoules) impinging earth’s surface everyday. This
enormous energy is 11,538 times greater than the daily
consumption of 1.3EJ of the world. Earth's ultimate recoverable oil resource is 3 trillion barrels, containing 1.7×10²²J of energy, which Sun delivers to our planet in 1.5 days.
TURBO AIR CONDITIONER
Consider any normal car air-conditioning system. According to the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), an automobile is used on an average for 249 hours annually and air conditioner usage is about 43% to 49% of the vehicle usage. Each vehicle uses 235 litres of gasoline annually for operating the air conditioner.
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