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.
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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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My unique innovative product idea is the Rotary Vane Internal Combustion Engine, the main advantages of which are significant improvements in the efficiency, reliability, durability, ease of manufacture and maintenance.
This engine is equivalent to an eight piston engine using two vanes on each rotor with four working cycles per revolution,
Manufacturing being the main pillar of civilized societies, plays an in important role in establishing a sustainable way ahead. In Pakistan, almost all manufacturing models are founded on an timeworn standard in comparison to the advance world. It is true that the culture and economy affects the technology, tools and related options to build sustainable solutions. However,
This work is devoted to the problem of diagnosing the suspension of vehicles. The problem of monitoring the condition of the suspension is now the most urgent due to the constant growth of the vehicle fleet and the tightening of requirements for safe operation.
AscenZ’s innovative and game-changing process technology, based on the highly efficient pultrusion manufacturing process, offers many advantages over traditional friction material manufacturing -- including continuous and highly-automated production yielding near-zero variability. The company’s highly-advanced friction composites demonstrate superior quality, significantly more consistent properties,
S-Band Strap: A simple tag/wrist strap with a QR Code that launches the healthcare data of individuals administered Covid-19 Vaccines.
Problem: Exposure, Exclusivity and unsafe means of tracking the health data of individuals who have been administered vaccines.
Solution: QR Codes that trigger the health data sheets of individuals administered vaccines.
Our drone is all about situational awareness. See everything in 8K 360 degree video.
The Hawk21 was designed with the professional high end content producer in mind, in TV productions, cinematography, documentary, commercial and PR productions, inspections and surveillance, general research and development projects such as for police military and emergency personnel at an affordable price.
Plastic waste pollution is an increasingly prevalent environmental issue around the world. Many companies produce plastic waste through their manufacturing processes, and resource-limited environments - isolated island populations, natural disaster locations, remote operations, and more - continuously bring in plastic products that end up as waste. In parallel to these issues, 
I am deeply concerned about the epidemiological situation in the world. We can stop the pandemic if we observe safety measures and use protective masks and antiseptics. But not everyone in the world does it. Therefore, I developed a special pocket case for mask disinfection. It can also be used as an antiseptic spray.
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