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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Are you aiming to sterilize and clean your home, company, mall, office, or restaurant every single hour without closing or get any expensive sterilizer-detergent and you want to attract a new consumer to your business by making health precautions due to Covid-19? Do you want to have robots that can clean the floor automatically?
Patients with Parkinson's disease or Essential Tremor commonly experience uncontrollable tremor in the hands. These symptoms range from bothersome to debilitating and their occurrence is frequent and unpredictable. Usually the patients are otherwise fully functional but their abilities to use their fingers in critical tasks, such as writing, typing, utensils or smart phone use, are greatly affected.
This article will not dispute climate change cause by greenhouse gases, but shed light on a new theory in the cause of raising temperature. Earth rising in temperature is not only causd by greenhouse gases, but also by the Planetary Orbital Misalignment. What is Planetary orbital Misalignment?
Interactive SmartWindows for Autonomous Vehicles with Digital Display capabilities. Transparent OLED TECHNOLOGIES with touchscreen, face recognition, temperature control, Augmented reality, voice recognition, the future of how we look out transportation windows will change forever! For military vehicles and aircraft, for private or public transportation vehicles like trains, buses, and airplanes...
This is an electric tricycle, unlike the traditional tricycle we have in Africa which uses petrol. This is a conceptual design of a modern tricycle that will bring about ease and comfort of transportation in Africa and other nations that use tricycle as a means of transportation. No fuel, no noise.
Propellers have moved motorized water craft ever since they were invented but a simplified way of moving on the surface of the water would make electric craft quieter and more efficient.
A simple chain mechanism with paddles attached would get maximum propulsion when interacting with the water, with minimal energy used similar to how ducks swim.
Built sturdy enough,
My submission is for a carbon neutral commercial aircraft propulsion. The propeller aircraft gave way to the jet mainly due to the large speed difference between the two. Propellers became inefficient at higher speeds such as Mach .8 and the available piston engine technology of the 50’s had insufficient power, and were bulky and heavy.
Perovskite photovoltaic technologies have opened new horizons for low-cost solar cells. To leverage laboratory-scale cells to modules, challenges in creating scalable fabrications, improving the high device yield, and extending the operational lifetimes need to be carefully addressed. Here, we introduce sulfolane in the perovskite precursor that can address the above-mentioned challenges. With the new precursor,
This concept provides a method whereby identical dual radial gap motor modules can be joined together in a linear assembly for the purpose of incrementally increasing or decreasing the total power output available to perform a particular task.
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