The 2025 Contest is Now Open for Entries!
Submit your best new product ideas in any of seven categories for a chance at $25,000 USD and other great prizes. Here’s how to get started.
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Since Tech Briefs magazine launched the Create the Future Design contest in 2002 to recognize and reward engineering innovation, over 15,000 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 today.
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.
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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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This invention is a new kind of electrical generator and electrical motor that redefines our basic understanding of power generation and utilization of the generated power by providing an efficient power output far more than current generators and motors design.
This entry presents a novel hybrid biologically-inspired dual-reciprocating and oscillation drill and sampler. The proposed system combines both reciprocation motion bioinspired by the wood wasp ovipositor and a new undulatory/oscillation motion bioinspired by the caudal fins of marine creatures, (which use this motion to generate a thrust force to propel themselves through water),
The invention is a shelf assembly with a hidden compartment accessed by a sequential multi-stage lock. The shelf assembly may be utilized for security of personal or business items. The shelf assembly may be constructed from a flexible material, such as a polymer, or from wood or metal for installation in a house, office, boat, or RV.
Researchers at the University of Arizona are developing a COVID-19 testing method that uses a smartphone microscope to analyze saliva samples and deliver results in about 10 minutes, at the accuracy of detecting a single virus copy. The UArizona research team, led by biomedical engineering professor Jeong-Yeol Yoon,
My idea was born from the experience of seeing and buying samples of miniature pottery made of clay. Sometime later, I had the concern to learn to work this art but with recycled material and I found that in my country it is popular to do it with corn starch,
A zero counter Magneto-Motive-Force (MMF) Drag Advance Alternator Technology is a new discovery and solution in the electricity power generating system. The new machine is designed to solve the lingering problems facing all conventional alternators in the market, especially low energy efficiency and electrical load capacity limit, sustainability challenges,
Simone is an opensource fembot (female) humanoid AI robot and is part of the #openFembot project. The purpose was to design a humanoid robot with A.I. that anyone could build. Simone phase 1 was completed in January 2022.
Uses: Simone can be used for entertainment, a store greeter, an office receptionist, a robot singer, a robot actress (“actroid”),
Laminated Bamboo Car: Vehicles made out of a renewable material.
It can be built with a chassis made completely out of glued bamboo composites, from pre-cut kits or shared patterns, using locally-grown sustainable materials, with low-tech tools. A 15-minute You Tube video is available, including engineering, fabrication with woodworking joints, bonding and stiffness testing.
There is a significant need for coal and coal miners in the modern world. With the increase in the demand for coal miners, they experience higher risks to life. A smart helmet is an upgraded version of a miners' original helmet. This smart helmet has the necessary elements to make the coal miners' lives more manageable. To ensure safety,
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