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.
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 Keshe Foundation presents the Universal Flight Enhancement Spaceship Unit as a revolutionary concept in space travel, space medicine, and space technology.
The prototype Flight Enhancement Spaceship Units are in production and undergoing final development, and are due to be launched in June 2022. During this year they are expected to fly passengers into space, to the moon,
There is an urgent need for more effective treatments for patients suffering from degenerative disc disease. Specifically in spinal fusion surgeries, incidents of nonunion- when the bones of the spine fail to fuse correctly- are high risk and can severely impact patients’ quality of life. One of the most expensive and invasive medical procedures,
In this IoT-based real time water quality monitoring system, we have interfaced four pH, turbidity, TDS, temperature sensors, and we have interfaced two motors for inlet and outlet of samples. Every two minutes a new sample is taken and the new sample's reading is taken by the sensor and uploaded to the cloud.
An unmanned aerial system (UAS) that is worn on a person and can collect intelligence through video and other mounted sensors while projecting power through lethal or less than lethal means.
We have designed a modification for conventional diesel engines that provides a dramatic reduction of internal friction by rotating the cylinder liner. We have proven that a 300-600 rpm cylinder rotation (depending on engine size and operating condition) can eliminate the metal-to-metal contact environment between the piston rings and cylinder, 
This information and video overview of the TEPStm MOG Canal Boat describes a 35 year working solar vessel that is privately owned and precisely matches the four words above. We seek to have designers, engineers, corporations, agencies,
Communication plays an important role in everyday life. We as human beings tend to communicate our needs to one another. As per the reports given by WHO back in 2021, 5% of the world population is suffering from hearing loss which is approximately 430+million people on this planet who are deaf.
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failure to protect touch screen, LCD breakage, total water-proofing,
ULTIMATE prevention of dust/ dirty accumulating on the touch screen,
The Eternium long range multi-role fuel cell electric aircraft and liquid hydrogen fuel production system consists of several patent-pending and novel engineering advances that make long-range (3200nm) electric flight possible. This system is based around our high power density patent-pending Eternium dual-rotor superconductive motor,
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