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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Estimates show that the final leg (“The Final Mile”) of delivery can comprise more than 25% of a product’s total transportation cost.
Shopping for groceries is time consuming and inefficient. It simply does not make much sense to use a 2,000 kg car with a 100 kg person to collect (or deliver) 2 kg of groceries.
Invasive mussel infestations pose significant logistical and economic challenges for local communities, recreationists, and water managers. Currently, no specific remediation method has demonstrated to be both efficient and economical making it ideal for use in large-scale eradication of invasive dreissenid mussel populations once these become widely established in “open water”, e.g., lakes, rivers, and reservoir benthic zones.
Working offshore on the back deck of supply vessels constitutes one of the highest exposure areas for vessel crew. Eliminating this exposure would improve safety and efficiency. This concept creates an equipment system that can be retrofit to existing assets to leverage the benefits associated with automation for a reasonable cost. The system consists of several components.
virtual healing, virtual psychologist, virtual filling with energy, virtual religion.
A device that can change people for the better. Every person on the planet Earth has a choice, which way to go, but not everyone knows about it, they live in their little world.
I developed a unique idea that can be translated into reality.
Many modern technological processes require clean high vacuum environments. Diffusion pumps (coupled with mechanical pumps) can achieve high vacuum pressures (3×10-8 mbar) and are relatively inexpensive and easy to maintain. Their greatest drawback is the backstreaming of oil vapors that could potentially contaminate the chamber where the process of interest is taking place.
Likewise,
Magnetic field on the surface of a ring magnet is compressed using a disc magnet having diameter equal to the width of the outer ring. The compressed magnetic field attracts the steel plate fixed on ring magnet making it to rotate.
Baxter Automotive Motor system is a perpetual motion "Active generating electric car" ( No battery required) . The design effectively replace fossil fuels for transportation. There is a logistics problem with plug in hybird electric cars that use electrical storage batteries.
The engine consists of two blocks. Number of blocks may be from one to the reasonable quantities (like 3, 4, 5 etc.). In this case, submitted an engine which consists of two blocks. Every block consist of two pistons (the black one - main and the red one-additional), and two valves.
EnerSysNet Canada Inc. (ESN) will bring the factory to the forest by developing a network of, mobile energy conversion (MEC) systems to produce infrastructure-compatible aviation, gasoline and diesel range liquid hydrocarbons from timber harvest trimmings and sawmill waste. Because this approach utilizes sustainable lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks “in situ” thereby drastically reducing the logistics expense,
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