The History Channel® and the National Inventors Hall of Fame® Foundation congratulate the 2007 Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge Grand Prize Winner and the top five finalists!

The Challenge, which is named in part for Modern Marvels®, the long-running series on The History Channel that celebrates ingenuity, imagination and invention brought to life, and Invent Now®, the creative and development entity of the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation, named Michael Sykes' Enertia® Building System as the 2007 Modern Marvel of the Year.

The Enertia® Building System uses a patented process to increase the latent heat storage capabilities of wood materials. The system also uses milled wooden blocks to eliminate the many materials and labor-intensive steps of house wall construction, replacing them with simple screwed-into-place units. According to Sykes, the result is an attractive house of renewable material that heats and cools itself with free, natural clean energy.

The competition also named Kim W. Bertron's SimpleShot as First-Prize Winner, Dan Didrick's X-Finger as Second-Prize Winner, Christine Ingemi's iHearSafe Earbuds as Third-Prize Winner and David T. Krausman's DeSat Counter as Fourth-Prize Winner. Visit our site in the coming weeks for more information on these amazing individuals and their inventions and visit http://www.history.com/invent for more information on the Modern Marvels Invent Now Challenge!