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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One of every six commercial vehicles (CV) on the road today has brakes out of adjustment. This fact is provided by “Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance “.
Every year CVSA sponsors a 72 hour roadcheck.In 2014 73,475 CVs were inspected, 29.5% were put out of service for brakes of which 16.7% were out of adjustment.
Chirohopters are a wing form apparatus designed to enable an individual to fly. The light-weight yet sturdy frame contracts in a similar fashion as a Bat (Chiroptera) by cables and pulleys controlled by the arms and legs. The main source of power is via the legs that control the "tooth flaps".
Conversion of Waste Kitchen Foods and Animal Waste in Organic Animal Feed, Pesticides and Fertilizer
This odor free technology, the controlled aerobic biological distillation process where microorganisms convert raw organic materials (kitchen waste, yard waste, animal manure and human feces) into a high yield, high value, organic pesticide, organic animal feed, or organic fertilizer. The technology will eliminate costs associated with landfilling, reduce methane greenhouse gas production,
Develop projects bricks with mechanical joints.
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The innovation consists in removing and replacing mortar with sealing tape. The joints between the bricks are mechanical - with screws. Screws achieved verticality, combines and compresses. The pin carried horizontality.
Halves are needed, corners ends and wall posts. By special design can be made rigid walls with insulation inside.
Many people, including myself, take meat or leftovers out of the freezer each morning and leave them to defrost in the fridge to be cooked when they get home from work. The problem is that I am constantly looking for the right sized container, WITH a lid,
The implementation of visco-elastic material in order to enhance the safety of vehicle occupants against T-knock road accidents.Unlike the frontal collision, Side impact collisions are particularly dangerous as there is limited space between the occupants and the point of contact.
This is no longer the age of phone calls; it is the day and age of texting, tweeting, snapchatting, and facetiming. Everyone is texting somebody, which means that at some point, people are bound to get the wrong message. If you can end a phone call before it connects, why can’t you do the same for a text?
FLAT GENERATOR
This invention relates to an electric generator. The present day electric generator normally works on the principle of dynamically induced e.m.f. in conductor/s housed within a rotary armature lying in a strong magnetic field. This generator has moving parts. An external mechanical force is essential for this present day rotary generator.
Every few years, it seems, we’re presented with the same empty promise: “Coming Soon! The Affordable Car that Flies like a Plane!” Though it’s true there have been prototypes in the air, and some companies may even be taking orders, these flying objects are not what their customers actually want to buy.
BioSculpture Technology, Inc. (“BST”) is a commercial stage medical device manufacturer developing a patented and prototyped minimally invasive device for the endoscopic removal of visceral or “belly” fat as a new treatment of obesity, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus. We believe our method and device will save lives, improve life outcomes, and significantly reduce healthcare costs.
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