The 2025 Contest is Now Open for Entries!
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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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According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, every weekend, about 54 million of us care for our lawns and gardens. We use more than 15,000,000 gallons of gas (more the 800 million annually) and producing tons of air polluting volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides.
In the current world with limited resources, undergoing global warming, the economical solutions with environmental low impact must be implemented. On a less (fossil) carbon mobility, the Spherical Chamber Engine (SCE) takes up the challenge!
It is an internal combustion engine, characterized by a spherical combustion chamber, reaching unmatched efficiency, increased by ~37%. Thanks to its exclusive competitive advantage,
Turbine jet engine designing and manufacturing. I am into aviation industry designing, manufacturing and deployment of UAVs and related products. My customers include engineering students, universities, defense, police and hobby enthusiasts. I started in this field 5 years back with many, many customers. I have a large hobby / drone store in Hyderabad.
My recent project includes design,
Hello! my name is Rustam. At the moment I am 54 years old. I have a complex neurological pathology, the consequences of cerebral palsy. Due to lack of financial resources, I could not go to Europe and America for treatment.
Tool - Racheting Fire hydrant wrench combine the two tools first two in video (two sided wrench).
After you open the bonnet (top of hydrant) to repair, you need another size tool.
Having two tools, two sizes on one wrench, top and bottom allows for less tools. This is an adjustable wrench which has no tool at the bottom.
Traffic accidents today could be considered a pandemic, since the causes of death, mainly in Latin America, are very high.
Road administrators receive information from multiple sources and their main source is the operational center, where services are managed, there are specific developments, but finally everything converges in making reports in Excel.
With the Platform,
The Ignire is a sedan type car. And mainly focused on middle class people who can't afford current electric cars in the market now. And the second goal is to offer a jet-like feeling while driving it. The Ignire uses a 28kWh lithium ion battery with maximum range of 350Km in single charge.
The CraioVault™ is an ultra cold vaccine delivery vault, the only one of it's kind. It was designed and made to fill the gap created by the absence of a rugged, easy to use, secure unit capable of holding vaccines and other critical medical samples for several days.
It has a gross volume of 27 litres,
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A fully automated river/gutter cleaning mechanism has been developed to tackle modern day gutter jamming issues and to purge water bodies. It uses an automated trash and oil skimmer cleaning system that filters the fluid (typically water) by allowing it to flow through the skimmer but captures large solid waste like bottles & plastic,
The current Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) is generally rated at about 25% efficient. My goal is to increase this efficiency rate to over 50% by making the ICE configuration more correct. Current engines make around 1 hp per cubic inch. My design will increase this to over 3 hp per cubic inch.
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