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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Problem
Standard bioreactors used to grow microalgal cultures have made little progress in their potential output to meet the needs of industrial carbon dioxide emissions. Although the potential value of the algal product is high, maintenance is laborious and costly.
Solution
High density bioreactors (HDBs) are more efficient and less costly to maintain by an order of magnitude,
Collaborite is a SaaS platform with implementation of innovative big data analytics of university research activities focused on targeted and prioritized filtration of best university partnerships for corporate companies. We function as a university-independent platform by collecting research data from free API's of domains like ResearchGate,
Trombone is an app designed and developed to help you find the right band for your event. If you’re throwing a house party, planning a wedding or hosting a corporate event; use our app to find and book bands based on your location, price and taste in music. With so many great artists looking for gigs,
A revolutionary new way to apply eye drops with the simple push of a button. This eye drop device holds, aligns, and administers eye drops simultaneously providing relief for the millions requiring eye drops for cataracts, glaucoma, LASIK, and dry eye.
Self-administering eye drops is difficult for multiple reasons.
Problem
Over 97% of our transportation energy comes from oil, but the United States controls just 3% of the proven oil reserves and must import from other countries. Coal and Natural Gas power stations use our abundant resources to provide 61% of our grid energy needs, at great expense to the people and environment due to carbon emissions.
A Six Degrees of Freedom (6Dof) Platform for Autonomous Ground Vehicles, Surface Vessels and Underwater Vessels. Intrusion Detection and Situation Awareness for rapid accurate response. Also adaptable for Aerospace and Earth Satellites.
There is no known technology that compares to the patented Compound Motion of the VForce® mechanism. This technology employs the Compound Motion Structures of the patented invention.
MRIs are a necessary but often anxiety provoking medical procedure. Particularly with pediatric patients, fear is often a barrier to collecting quality MRI data. 49% of pediatric MRIs require sedation and up to 30% of imaging data sets are deemed unusable due to head movement (Power. et al., 2014). These sedations in turn,
Problem
Climate change is placing hardship on 3 billion people in poverty. Dysentery and spread of disease can be prevented if they could just boil water, keep food chilled, and power small appliances. For every tonne of carbon dioxide we emit into the atmosphere, we sacrifice $212 in environmental degradation and negative social impacts.
‘Curtains for COVID’
FoVi is a wearable focal muscle vibration device that can be worn at different locations of muscles and muscle groups on a human. It is an innovative device with feedback control to provide precise vibration therapy to target muscles/muscle groups for neurorehabilitation. FoVi and be worn and used while user at rest or performing activities of daily living.
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